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‘CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1966,

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| MEDICARE DISCUSSED

Fluoridation-Of sland Water ls Urged By Health Minister

| plan for all people of the pro. | practitioner and surgery, where- vince who have their own water | vince. as many of our’ citizens | carry supply were urged to introduce The question, he said, about a employer employee medita’ fluorine into that water supply plan is ‘not if, but how. plans which provide complet: immediately by Health Minister | \‘‘We must be realistic. Surely coverage and which they -wi'l

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“Covers: Prince Edwaed Island Like The Dew”

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Blizzard Hits Eastern Nfld.

ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP) — blizzard packing 10 ¥inches of |-snow and. high winds hit eastern | Newfoundland early Wednesday jand was expected. to last about |24 hours. ;

Several inches of snow had fallen on the Avalon Peninsula iby noon and winds reaching 60 ‘miles an hour had caused ‘se-. vere drifting.

Ploughs in ‘many places were giving up attempts to clear high- ways because of low visibility

Henry Wedge. in the Legislature yesterday. ;

~ Speaking in. the draft address

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the proposals placed before the premiers of Canada at the last federal. .-__provincial conference make -this fact obvious. Medi-

hesitate discontinuing due to the extra benefits. -"

At..the present time we have 47 per cent of our population

Uneasy Quiet

— WEATHER

Sunny; northwest winds 15. Low-high 12 and 32. Friday: sunny, a few: cloudy periods, milder,

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2. Gemini 8 Astronauts Plunge Into T

Disabled Ship Forces Landing

By JOHN BARBOUR jnoted some aberrational action

CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP) between his spacecraft and the Two calm Gemini 8 astronauts | Agena target ship it had joined. plunged to a safe emergency He ‘decided quickly to back landing at sea Wednesday night | away from the fuel - loaded after some desperate, fearful | Agena, which has been called a moments. .in a. disabled space- | flying bomb in space. ship tarnished their brilliant | space success. |FAILED. TO. FIRE

Gemini .8 astronauts Neil; Some of the thrusters in the Armstrong and David Seott;main manoeuvring and control were reported safe and- sound |system aboard-.the- Gemini 8 and in fine shape by U.S. para- | failed to fire. Armstrong quickly rescue men who leaped into the |brought auxiliary thrusters into _ water_near_the spacecraft from |Play—but they were a set nor--

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: eee ae — oe . care in whatever form must be who are subscribing to various Settles Over i? tights oe time that a a ieee Edward Island are in a deplor: | P#'° for. We know the federal |types of medical ‘care plans Ei US manned fllaht had “baes| ‘he-Agena rocket weed 6s @

contributions must be paid for | across this country. We have through Se taxes, which "heard much on the proposed ted-

; | means inéreased prices, era! medicare scheme and most | festh decar be two thirds ond it| ,.“The provincial portion, which of the provinces, seven of the LOS ANGELES (AP)—An’ un has been proved to be a perfect. | in our case could run to a pos, ten,” and the most heavily pop- eaSy quiet settled Wednesday | code, aa inexpensive proce- | sible $2,000,000, must be pro- ulaied, are unhappy with the over the Negro community of : | vided. Can. we raise these funds proposal.

target ship is really a flying rocket with an engine that can be turned: on and off-in space. The idea had been to use the Agena’'s power to propel the Gemini spacecraft.

So clear had been the success

cut short by spacecraft trouble.

With ships speeding to the scene, the destroyer Mason was the nearest, closing the 50 miles that separated it from the spacecraft.

fable state and there are not enough dentists to take care of |

_Los Angeles |

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- |Watts, torn Tuesday by a two. |

dure. : 1 ; : The rescue men talked to-the | from premiums from our citi- : jdeath rampage, as police tried areas ident Johnson in Wash- “All other provinces, except | zens, which could run to a fam- | BIG OBJECTIVE to- avert further flare-ups in the |astronauts and fixed the flota- peibihasesell publicly: for. tins

tion collar. helps steady |

New Brunswick and Prince Ed-|ily cost as in Ontario, of $150; The biggest objections are to area of massive and bloody : ae and keep the spacecraft afloat

ward Island, now have fluorig, per year? This would be impos- | the compulsory requirements, (rioting last August. =e h Re 1 dated waters and in the United | sible for families of modest in- | and that it must be operated by | The main street was blocked |” oo ‘as cae a eer States, 60,000,000° people are come and from our experience |#. government agency. The pro- jte all but -commercial traffic,’ °°? Me area d drinking fluoridated water and [| with hospital insurance it would | Vinces representing the major patrol cars carrying men with ODD ENDING ~

would urge all communities not be a practical method of Proportion of our population are shotguns roamed the streets.|. It was an odd ending for a with a water supply in the pro-| providing the cost. Further, the | unconvinced. that the proposed pedestrian traffic _was light.|day that began. so perfectly.

first time that the United States would beat the Soviet Union in the race to the moon. 4 __ The- docking technique is an essential part of the plan te land Americans on the moon.

‘TOP O’ THE MORNIN’ TO YOU’

_ ter of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Cahill, Alexander Drive, Char-

‘torium when The Benevolent Irish Society closes out its two-

It's a tip of the hat.to you on this St. Patrick's Day and the

charming little lady doing the ~ honors is Alana Cahill, daugh-

lottetown. Alana performs as a Specialty -number tonight - at Birchwood High School audi-

night stand of the rollicking three-act comedy, ‘‘Norfh's Folly.”

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| Vince to introduce flouridation | suggested plan will only cover without delay.’’ | the cost of fees for the medical

scheme is the best method for

Some stores were closed. School (Continued on Page 5'Col 7): |

attendance was down.

~ Industrial Corporation Capital. ~ Will Be Increased By-$5 Million

A bill raisimg the amount of Prince) voted with the govern- and the opposition accusing the working capital the Prince Ed- ment on the bill and all other government of withholding ward Island Industrial Corpora- members of the opposition vot- formation. of the corporation's

tion may borrow from $5 million

to—$10— million—and—authorizing The discussion_on_the_amend-| Alex Campbell, the leader of the company to issue securfysments the bill would effect got |the opposition, said, “we haven't | for such loans received second quite heated at times_ with the |been told what they are going to

reading in the Legislative As- sembly yesterday. Robert Campbell

RCMP Service

ed against it.

members of the government ac- cusing the Opposition of being

(L-Ist against industrial development jlion

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Cost About $259,000 Yearly

Police services hy. the RCMP! On the matter of.offshore min- | would be used there.

cost this province about $259,000 per year, Attorney-General Al- ban’Farmer said in the Legisla- ture yesterday.

Speaking in the draft address debate, Mr. Farmer said a con- tract for RCMP services for this year was signed earlier this

month and the cost to the pro- |

vince is to be $4,895 per man for __50 men. Mr. Farmer Said that the™ sit-

uation. ‘‘as far as crime is con-| in the |provincial treasurer but he said |mation for him to form a con- province. He noted that four ho- jhe would save his comments on clusion of the state of affairs re- micides were committed last provincial finances until he de-|

cerned is not too bad"

year and said this was ‘“‘unus- livered the 1966-67 budget which development program.

ual” for this province.

eral rights, the attorney-general said that the Atlantic Provinces

and Quebec had agree what water areas involvinf£ ‘ mineral rights should belong to eacif pro-

vince but the federal government

j\does not accept the provinces’ jagreement. : Mr. Farmer said it appears

ithat the courts are to decide on ithe_provinces’ claims. _

The aftorney-general

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may come down next week.

ithe—previncial_—auditor's _report./ only . $31,000,000.

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Mr. Wedge said he was alarm- ed that nothing has been done in the way of fluoridation of water systems im the province and ‘it is fioped that mwnici- palities will take this very im- ong matter under consider- ation."

| MEBPICARE PLAN * - '""Mr. Wedge said that the gov-

medicare ; Ward Island had stirring chal- lenges

when George Morris, Merlin, Ont., spoke to’ a meeting in the

terms of a universs?

CNR Deficit Is Reduced

OTTAWA (CP)—The publicly- | owned CNR had 4 deficit of $34,- 718,000 last year. down from a $38;726,000 loss in 1964 and its

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You people have weather that is_perhaps better suited to beef cattle raising than any other place in this country—tests had

do with the $5 million or what indicated 50 degree weather is

they did with the last $5 mil-

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Beef Breeders Are Told This Is Cattle ‘Heaven’

|ernment is thinking along the Beef cattlemen on Prince Ed- | ideal thrown to them yesterday | other part of the country. This |

> goal. ‘You can't blame anyone but yourselves.”

Feeder lot men: will be paying ijs_a_cattle heaven,” he said. | 40 cents per pound for feeder | And you should be getting the| steers this fall, he suggested:

and. you people are per- haps closer to that than any

in the world. If this is not_a| The people of Canada have _cow-marketing heaven, it’s your purchased their last cheap beef. | own fault, said the Ontario man. Higher costs are ahead, he em | who did not suggest how the Is-| phasized.

| land farmers could achieve that

; Robert Campbell asked, ‘will some of the $5 million be spen |in West Prince?” e ‘FOR WEST PRINCE

| Hon. Hubert MacNeill, Minis- ter of welfare, told Mr. Camp- bell four and a_half million

| lowest in five years, the govern- ment reported. Wednesday.

This figure was _ revealed when . supplementary spending estimates for the fiscal year ending March 31 were tabled in the Commons. They included -a

oe to finance the rail- ‘opening of yesterday's sitting of | Mr. Campbell said: that the, %®Y 5 1088. . the Legislative Assembly Wil- Premier suggests, there have No details of the CNR’s rev- liam Acorn (L-Ist. Kings) asked been rumours. that the opposition |enues or debt payments were the Minister of Fisheries Leo lis against industrial . develop- included. In recent: years inter- Rossiter for the names of the ‘ment, that- there wasn’t enough est on the railway’s massive fishermen who have received ‘information available tothe op- debt has been running about loans from the Fisherman's ‘position. Mr. Campbell claimed | $16,000,000. jLoan Board.

jthe provincial, auditor's report) The CNR last reported a/| stion ared to an- | supported the claim there wasn’t | profit in 1956 when it ended up lor ae bein ot Fisheries enough information available. 8.07 000 in the black. That ‘and he replied. ‘I have no inten- Mr. Campbell claimed that even! year_ interest payments were ition of giving the names of fish- -___.|_________lermen_who_received loans from tae a before the ithe Fisherman’s Loan Board.” ‘ommons ansport committee |

‘has included, Saath “that the! He explaned that he felt such on its passenger operations in |@ Move-would be infringing on | 1965. ithe privacy of the individuals

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‘stated there wasn’t enough infor- |

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CONDITION SAID GOOD >

- Two Russian Space Dogs, Land After 22-Da

- . i) MOSCOW ‘AP) — After 29 days in orbit, two Soviet space ' dogs returned to. eafth in good condition Wednesday despite soaring into the Van Allen belt

of intense radiation. the news agency Tass said. : Veterok and Usolek’ were

rocketed into an orbit Feh. 22 from 116 miles to 562 miles above the’ earth—an altitude never approached by the manned ‘Soviet and U:S.-flights.

At more than 500 .miles the small black-and-white dogs re- peatedly ran through the lower reaches of the Van Allen belt, a source of worry for space planners.

Tass announced ‘he. animals are in good conditjon after land ing.”

The . announcement said the dogs will be placed under! \9b- servation Results of the study will be made public. |

OBTAINED DATA |

“Of great importance are. data obtained about ‘effects -on an organism of cosmic ra- diation and. the earth's radia- tion belts," Tass said ' ~The Russians-have annoufiéed - flights by animals. will precede

new manned strides in’ space, |Moscow has been buzzing’ with [rumors another manned flight |will come before the 23rd So- viet Communist party congress March 29, ; i The Soviet Union™ has Lelosed thaf\ before Yuri igarin’s first \space flight April /12, 1961, seven \ dogs were or- |bited. Of these, three died in space and four \were returned | safely to earth‘

The two dogs’ stay aloft was ‘longer than the manned space flight record of 14 days set by the U.S., last December;

Tass said all systems ‘aboard the Cosmos. satellite—the ‘dogs’

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T ° |space “craft — functioned nor-! mally and showed great relia-| bility under conditions of ' long

flight, weightlessness and ra- diation at high altitudes.

LANDED IN ASIA

They were landed in what Tass. described as the pre- |scribed area, believed to .be in Soviet Central Asia not far from | the launching site at Baykonur. | Except for some heart irreg- ularity, the condition of both! dogs. was » Satisfactory through | the entire flight, Tass said: During he initial period ot | the state of weightlessness, some disruption of co -' ordina- tion was observed, such as a rocking of the head and.a cer-| tain neasiness,.Tass reported. | But with the eighth and ninth! jdays, the conduct of the dogs |became calmer. . | The state of the dogs was ob- | served with the aid of televi-| ~ oe ee cameras aboard the satel- | ite. a The dogs wore corset - “ike | contraptions equipped with Gemini 8's Pilots’ Neil Arm- scientific measuring ‘equipment strong. LEFT. and David R. jand . were fond | Scott Wednesday rode their

ly with’ Agena, unmanned space vehicle, but then back- reporting trouble.«

fed paste i ed away, A thnough tubes inserted in their spacecraft) to .a¢ ‘space-first Space officials called for ari ‘stomachs. : ' when they docked successful- early termination to the flight,

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Fishermen’s Loan Details Will Be Kept From Public

During question period at the ‘and he pointed out that such in-

‘Mr. Rossiter said, “I will be happy to submit the names~ to

‘this province.”

| SUCCESS’ AND THEN TROUBLE

FEED SUPPLEMENT

formation was not available Which described vividly the ur-

. ; | need for more food that is from other lending agencies such | gent ; as banks, ‘‘I have no intention of | facing a world population that

giving these names and I won't,” ‘They "were made’ availatio by Mr. Rossiter shouted. |the Acres. research people, it George Ferguson (L-5th Kings) | was explained.

expressed the opinion that aS Agriculture Minister MacRae members of the House and as spoke to the group at the dinner. representatives of the people of Leo Mclssac, president of the the province they had the right P.E.I. Beef Producers Associat- to know this information. ion, presided.

They will descend to the lunar

Just half an hour before the!surface from the moon orbiting

|Spacecraft troubled cropped up, mothership, then rejoin the ~~ | Armstrong and Scott had linked | mothership -for the return flight up with the Agena target ship— to earth. i :

the first time’ two spacecraft | had been —joined together in space.

Gemini 8 splashed “down in| the “ Western “Pacific~ Ocean in full daylight and relatively calm seas some 59: miles east of Okinawa .ab® about 10:23 -p.m., ‘EST and “vas\ spotted almost immediately by a searching U.S. C-54 aircraft; | It was the same plane that \dropped ‘the para-rescue men to reach the astronauts. The air- |

LAUNCHING PERFECT

The nearly perfect early part of Wednesday was in a sense a--celebration...too—of. the ‘'tre- mendous progress’ made since the late América inventor, Robert H. Goddard? the first: liquid-fielled ‘rocket.

It was 40 years to the day since that flight, which attained a height of 35 feet: and had a downrange distance of 200 feet.

The sudden turn of events

Basilica Recreation Centre here. highest price for dressed beef | And ‘they’re worried about get-| craft crew, relaying word |seemed hard ‘to believe. What About 200 were in attendance. carcasses that is paid anywhere | ting enough even at that price.-'through Japan, said the space-|minutes before had been star-

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raft was stable in three-foot tling success . : en

Seana rious trouble, Planes —and-—-two—destroyers- gering_action..__ ie jconverged on the area. The re-| It halted a try at a record |ported position was smack in |space stroll by Scott, a 33-year- - the middle of the emergency old U.S. Air Force major. He recovery area. was to have drifted about on With Armstrong at the con- the end of a 100-foot nt pe trols, the retro-rockets on the some 2% hours during 1 Gemini 8 were fired with a jolt |times-around the earth. as at 9:45 p.m. as the spacecraft That would have outdone crossed the equator over the |20 minutes spent on the end of African ‘continent. |a 16-foot tether by Soviet cos- Then the suddenly slowed ship monaut igs aa a srr began its fiery descent to et ca Se test Giher by Us and was out of communication | Utes 0" ; award Whit eae with the ground for more than | @Stronaut Edwar te. half an hour. SHOWED SKILLS The flight ended 19 hours and|- There was no question about 42-—minutes after it began. It the flying skill and the mathe- was supposed to last. three days matical computing of both Arm- and feature a record space walk-strong and Scott. They had per- by Scott. formed the first link-up in space The trouble came at about between two spacecraft and it

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the fisheries. committee, but I, don't think they should be splashed across the

First Prince Liberal Robert Campbell made a_ strong plea in the Legislature yesterday for i the establishment by the govern-

‘ment of industry in West Prince. | Taking part in the draft ad- |dress debate, Mr. Campbell

are about 10,444 people in the First District and we have noth- ing. I want to see industry start-

gaid ‘‘we need industry. There |

6:41 p.m. when Armstrong came barely six hours, 34 min- ——— utes after tyey had blasted off __\from Cape Kennedy. | Armstrong, the 35 - year - old” ‘experienced civilian’ pilot, had handled the flying chores from the moment, 11:41 a.m, that Gemini 8 had dashed into space trailing the blue fire of its 109- foot Titan IT rocket. At that time, the Agena tar- haa Bet ship was 1,207 miles ahead and above. A series of six pre- cise manoeuvres closed the gap and by: 6:15 p.m., Gemini 8 slipped its nose,.into the green- lit flexible doclting collar of the Agena which then closed down and created a 44-foot joined ve- hicle weighing’ more than 24.000 pounds. ’

led in the district and I am 100 iper cent in favor of industry when it is handled right.” ‘He said the government provided a great deal of industry for Kings County but “nothing has been done for West Prince i yet.”” or, Campbell adjourned the debate on the Speech from ‘the Throne and will have the floor ‘when the dehate resumes today.

Ottawa Pla To Fishing

OTTAWA CP) Legisla- ,tion empowering the fisheries department to assist in _financ- ‘ing cold storage plants for fish- ermen and commercial | bait: freezing plants was. introduced in the Commons Wednesday:

Fisheries Minister Robichaud said it is another step in the jgovernment’s program to spur fisheries development.

The bill doesnot spell out the jterms of such assistance or specify the groups eligible for

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| It is expected it will he aimed jchiefly at assisting co - oper-

latives and other fishermen's

ee P ! groups. bringing them down the Ge- | jt also. provides Mr. Robi- mini spacecraft in the Pacifie chaud’s department, with au- ithority to enter agreements

@rean. : e with provinces for financing the

(AP Wirephote) ‘development of new fishing

ALSO HAD GOOD LAUNCH ~~ Before that historic moment, the Gemini astronauts played cat and mouse with the target _ ship at the climax of the 195,- 0-mile chase, flying in forma- tion with it. The Agena had a |perfect launch at 10 a.m., speed:

nning Spur

ing into orbit aboard the 104- foot Atlas rocket in a‘flare of thunder and orange colored flame. The astronauts caught ther techniques, .new. types of vessels first glimpse of the blinking

and equipment and economic jights of the Agena high over studies . the western Pacific in darkness Details-.will be given when it and chased it into the sunrise. icomes up for ‘second reading They caught up with it and fi- later in the session nally’ docked over the south At- EED NEW SPECIES lantic Ocean. Mr. Robichaud said there was ~-]t 1 ig really a smoothie,” a need to exploit new a aitbe of Armstrong called down from fish. Herring fishing. was beinZ’ cnace, ‘ niarged off the Atlantic Coast Before that they had compll- land there was encouraging pro- mented their spaceship with the gress in the establishment Of words, “We've got a real win- ja tuna industry: in southern New ner up. here.”

runswick : : Heath Macquarrie (PC— LAUNCH "DELAYED ueens! said he welcomes any Despité some earlier rocket

ew devetopment in the fish- and spacecraft trouble that had ries field. There should also be caused a 24-hour delay in the ore emphasis on locating new Launeh, Wednesday dawned foreign markets. partictilarly bright and. shining over. Cape for types suchas mackerel and [Kennedy ‘and the . worldwide gmelt which sometimes were in weather picture was called the over-supply. ibest for any shot yet.

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