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liam C, Short, past grand coun- sellor, special UCT agent for Canada. From left to right Roland Taylor,

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Four of the newly elected officers of the United Com- mercial Travellers, Charlotte- town Council 859, chat briefly rior to a banquet meeting at the Charlottetown Hotel last ei night. Addressing the group's | secretary-treasurer; Tet charter night, was Wil- | and Gerald Nantes, peatioel, all

S'side Area Is Smothered By Blinding Snow Storm

SUMMERSIDE BUREAU | headlights were of little use. OF THE GUARDIAN| School busses completed their A blinding snowstorm, the/|routes before the storm set in worst of the year, smothered the | and no accidents were reported Summerside area late yesterday | up to a late hour last night. afternoon and evening caus BOUT 5 O'CLOCK a rash of minor accidents and stranding many motorists yesterday afternoon didn’t hit The weather office at the|the Summerside area with a RCAF station predicted 10 to 12| vengeance until shortly before Inches of snow and reported | five o'clock. Slippery highways winds were gusting to 75 miles | and high winds were combining per hour reducing visibility to|to put vehicles in the ditch and zero, Nearly four inches had fall-| in a very few minutes visibility en up until mid-evening, most | was down to zero. of it during a four-hour period Plow operators last evening Cars were getting stuck in| said they couldn't see mowdrifts on all highways and the front of the plow and drift- because of the visibility vehicles | ing was expected to continue coming behind were plowing | with the same reduced visibility {nto them resulting in half a doz-| all through the night as the we en or more vehicles lined oh he. See ee hind the stranded car, and times causing a series of minor collisions. Prince. County Hospital soa orities reported three had been treated last evening m out-patients but were not tained. Three minor Salata occurred in the town but no in-| Prince Philip, a target for fe Juries were reported. A snow-| male sighs everywhere he goes,

nthe storm which began early

/Prince Philip Almost Mobbed By Teen-Agers

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters)—

| Toombs, Winsloe, page.

plow was standing by at the| scored one’ of the biggest sue- Police station to assist in case cesses of his royal career here of emergencies. Frid:

ONE EMERGENCY

During a wreath-laying cere- mony at a statue of Argentine hero General San Martin, Phi- ibility iP, was Si oben, ae and the plleup of vehicles on the | 278 iid to tea af bits pel highway which made plowing | clothes for souvent azardous. An emergency call from Borden requesting plow | ,, embers ph ge assistance in getting Mrs. Frank around him as the prince Perry to Prince County Hos-| fic head and muttered “it's gon ssible,

The Prince is visiting Argen- tina during a seven-week good- try was expecting an | wit! tour of South America. addition to. the family When he was introduced

Because of the front vehicle Thursday Gen. becoming stuck in a snowdrif:| Fraga, the Argentine war lineup of , cars were reported ister he did his bit to lighten from Upper Central Street north | the tension of a political crisis of the Pope Road, New Annan, | hanging over the country. Miscouche and St. Eleanors Philip asked Frege, could not be learned if any| had motorists were spending the whether he casera t Fraga night in their cars said he had been in office a

Damage was reported as ex- year id liked it. tensive to some of the vehicles involved in the chain of accid- ents.

IN WEST PRINCE

The storm struck the Western Prince area shortly before dusk =e beg ‘a short time visibil. | BOW:

iy was limited to a few feet as | ‘ JETS

government ted act-

a fovetamaes plow from Albany,

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aid. ai 8 don't go oat start one| ter it drifted by the North

ther forcasters were predicting | gale force winds through night and much of today.

have arrived home safely be-| fore the storm reached its peak. Most of the Summerside closed their doors early evening as most people

Strike Has No Relation To Ferries

‘The question of operating the ferries at Borden has no con- nection with the possibility of a

rike by railway employees, Frank Lappin, chairman of the local Brotherhood | of ‘Locomo- tive Engineers, said yesterday.

“This is entirely different from the r of “non-operat- ing unions” going on strike,’ Mr. | Lappin stated. ‘‘We have nothing | to do with the ferries.””

of Charlottetown. Other offi- cers are Harvey McLeod, past senior counsellor; Roy Small- man, chaplain, both of Char- lottetown; Ivan Kerry, Sher- wood, conductor and Lee

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itaying close to home. Only minor disruptions were ustained by-, telephone

| hostel facilities. The delegation,

com-| Montreal, presented a brief out-|

munications and no power fail-|jining needs for a basic budget ures were reported. !

of $25,000 a year for five years.

Drift of Soviet Ice Island

seb ey ORTH POLE

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2 ar. #CLYDE INLET

A S ie POSSIBLE ROUTES i ICE ISLAND DRIFT CHARTED

Clyde Inlet on Baffin Island in May, 1961, where it was visited by a Defence Research Board scientiest. Originally set up by

Broken ai ible routes of an ee ‘sland af af-

Pole and was abandoned by

Soviet scientists 180 miles | the Soviets in May, 1957, com- north of Greenland in March, | plete with tents huts, the 1989. The island, called North | island now has disintegrated. Pole 7, led up in | (See story on page 9.)

| area,

ISLAND NEWS PAGE

Summerside and Prince County ‘The Guardian, Charlottetown, Sat., Mar. 24, 1962. 3 |

Ch'town Theatre Guild

MacNaught QC, regional c! man of the Dominion Drama|come reconciled, even though festival. released the following | Leonard is not anxious for particulars concerning the en-| reconciliation. try of the Charlottetown Little| In the third act, Leonard, tir- Theatre Guild in the festival to| ed of Eustasia’s devotion, and be held in the Summerside Civic | Nicholas, rejected by Anne, de- Auditorium on the evenings cide to run away together to the March 29 to 31. south of France and to g

The Charlottetown presen- | fresh start. tation “The Dover Road,” will|. Mr. Latimer helps them in be shown on Saturday, the final | their departure because it enab- day of the festival and-is an ab- | les him to achieve his goal of surd comedy in three acts. | preventing two unhappy marri- The play centres around a/ ages. | mysterious old man, Mr. Lati- mer. He and his staff live in a stately English home on t road to Dover.

A rich man, he devotes his | time and money to saving peo- ple from the effects of a second marriage into which they often Peanut cae hastily plunge. ue due to zero vietliy. | Th The Biay opens with Leonard. |The bus going to Souris wen in English nobleman, arriving | two miles outside of Charlotte:

home of Mr. Latimer with Anne, the only daughter of erdguat oe ee ona

an Englist commoner, They = ed at Tormentine at 6.11 p.m. Were delayed by the scheming 204 Was to remain there until of Mr. Lathes, the storm abated. The plow dis- As the story develops Leonard | Patcher said at a late hour that discovers that his wife, Eustas- | the ferry was still at the main- who is running away with land terminal. The Borden train Nicholas, an attractive young "ema! on the mainland. | FERRY STUCK PLOWS Meanwhile the SS Pritce Ed- ward Island was stuck in the ice | a two miles from Borden, She be- sonia om Case 1 | came’ ck er ium te

ting in ; Rev, Walter Reid of Charlotte. | {fom Tormentine, where

left at 3:12 p.m. ; 4 {own being aitken to the Char- | “an city plows were working

on City streets at a late hour last night. Plows working — in | truck, by J. e n the up town area were in con- Driscoll of Mt. Herbert, stant radio contact with the out to go by a parked car and gut to go by & parked car and | Fire Hall, where an cight-man ae . remained on duty all

RSIDE — J. har ae

the storm began at 11 a.m. The storm was accompanied by high winds 42 m.p.h. gusting to 58 m.p.h.

Two MCA flights were can- galled. The 4.55 p.m. flight and

a Russell Pulled

crew

| unable to return to its own side | Ore)

| of the road. truck collied > Charlottes

head-on with a vehicle driven | | T° (Charlottatown detach, by Father Reid. De at oa eee that two accidents had been re-

parather, Reid te coported ave only received’ facial ie and is expected to I Teleased from hospital today. ( Eoccen By QUAKE

| SEAL HUNTERS SAFE | ‘our SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A

seal hunters were re- |

Pee a atta canon eee Tal seat eariboisialioresee (es TTP | *etling vessel after they were | dows and toppled dishes trom caught out on the toe by" the shelves in parts of San Fran-

ane eee and communities to the

ported but resulted in property

{n- | damage only.

oPresent DoverRoad’

is at Mr. Latimer’s home | Leonard and Eustasia be- |

PRESENT BRIEF

onto check over a brief they presented Tuesday to the Hall royal commission on health services in Ottawa. Dr. Gul- lett, advocate of fluoridation

! of drinking water, said those who opposed it were ‘in the business” of opposing publie health measures

(CP. Wirephoto)

Dr. William Miller (left) of Vancouver, president of the ‘anadian Dental Association, and association national scc- retary Dr. Don Gullett of Tor-

(eeeat in the vehile | later and the program commit. William Aylward, Bristol, who| tee to be the executive plus is employed ia Summerside was ny Sudsbury. arrested on Water street around ie | mestiat hel * Fi ned $100 1 o'clock yesterday by Cpl. Val- ans nee tee Prune vin Bungay of the ROMP. Cpl. | evening with 12 members pre- SUMMERSIDE Two men Bungay contacted the town! sent. The president, John Pill- were fined $100 and costs or Police who took the accused to|man opened with prayer and seven days in jail in police | Prince County jail scripture was read by William court yesterday after plead-| A Summerside man was fin- The sick. committee | ing guilty to charges of driving ed $30 and costs or 20 days aft-|Teported that cards had been a motor vehicle while their 1b-| er pleading guilty to an intox.| Sent to the sick of the parish | ility was impaired by alcohol or | joation charge The new sick committee is a drug Magistrate Richard 8. Minton | William Pidgeon, Elmer Moase Trueman Pugh, Conway, was | presided. and Harry Sudsbury | apprehended Thursday _after- Following the business period noon on Belmont street after be- the Rev. Ronald Parsons led im

Two Drivers

Laymen Planning,

ing trailed by police officer Har- Bible study | ry MacKay from e western . } outskirts of town, Cnst, MacKay Spring Concert earns ieee

stated accused grabbed the keys from the ignition after he stop- ped his car on Belmont street He testified, that he ordered the accused to get out of his car and found “he couldn't stand up on his own.” A bottle of wine was

KENSINGTON — A_ motion was passed at the March meet

Northern Ireland's first forest ing of the New London Parish Park, the 1.200-acre Tollymore Layman's Association, that the |Park at the foot of the Moun- annual concert be presented in |tains of Mourne in County ‘the Spring, the date to be set Down, was opened in 1955.

The hunters, Lowell and Clair | Ch

Matthews, Michael Gallant, all South early Friday. of Alberton and Gilmore Coffin, | North Rustico, were feared lost for a short time but one of a numberof sealing vessels in the |

“The Polar Star’ sent

Sita armitaliia wis ioe the men to the ship, They were | scheduled to remain on board | the vessel until the storm sub- |

| sided and then would be picked

The three planes being used by the sealers, based at St. Pet-

other at St. Margarets and the other at East Point. One of the planes was in the air when the storm struck and was off course for a short time. The plow despatcher in Char- lottetown reported that all roads were blocked and plows were not expected to go out until | mornin LITTLE TRAFFIC IN CITY Traffic was at a minimum on city streets. One motorist tok | ‘ one and one-half hours to go | | trom Prince Street to his ine in Parkdale, a distance of 14 & miles. With all taxi's stopping ations early in the evening, ( oy Police were ance in taking persons ers their work to their homes. Charlottetown’s business sec- tion was deserted from Friday night shoppers as many estab- lishments closed doors early in the evening. A number of card parties and bingo games were

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also cancelled. | SEVEN INCHES SNOW

| Ronen es atl sa lottetown airport

oo 11 p.m. vena aes inches of snow had fallen since

ed the snow in all direetions. By 10 o'clock snow was piled) (Continued from page 1) to a depth of several feet in| have signalled a hardening in ™any places and cars were be- attitude of the French army toming down on main| toward the Secret Army, many and secondary roads. Motoring | whom are former comrades- was extremely hazardous as | -8rms. OSE BOYS oune ‘i “Those were Say ek Se ae (al | officer said. his face st Sheng Ged ee a gest we are : | Secret Army. Now you will see | we are not going to take this CAMPBELL = At Chariotte- | sort of thing from them. town, Friday March 23, 1962, armed Secret Mre. Evelyn Campbell. Rest- | Army forces fought back with He at Se Reweees Puseret bazookas, machine - guns and Home funeral arrange- | grenade-throwers. ments can be completed Civians dropped Suntes GHES Iconies on z ae eet et ope below and snipers iazed : . ‘ay from the ; in the Oran | way late ont they the the

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