Ss Pao ae 7 iS age 3 eee SS eee hs fe ap pl ~ PART OF SUMMERSIDE’S PROGRESS STORY These “pictures of the year” which comes to close Tecall events which have stirred, thrilled and deeply interested Lies ieee 1959. The million dollar project there proceeds largely explain the phenomenal progress TELEPHONE 8506 Storm Disrupting Traffic On Provincial Highways MOMENT OF TRIUMPH FOR NEW PREMIER ¥ being written by Summerside itself. ‘The gtimpse of Premier Shaw VISIT OF QUEEN WAS 1959 HIGHSPOT tact hone _ MONTAGUE RECOVERS FROM BAD BLOW nis (second and Lt. Col. D.A. MacKinnon, at left and right, recalls what was “1959's story picture) tells its own story, for it was eauight on the evening of the election gest day” for many Islantiers. Loss of Montague High School (right has been giant heavings of earth at RCAF Station Summerside (far left) as the multi- which carried his government into power. The view of Her Majesty (third pac- lowed by swift adjustment to problem, with school work continuing almost um ture), with Prince Philip beside her, taken as she chatted’ with Cecil Stewart _interrupted. : Che Guardian "Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew” CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1959 WEATHER Cloudy with snowflurries, colder, north- erly winds 15. Low-high at Charlotte- town 23 and 30, 16 PAGES Desin Toll On Island Root LEEaag tev pt fe were Fe ahaa | wd z F ee April Start Seen For New School Construction of a new. high; Malcolm MacKenzie the deputy school to replace oe Oe Slee ana ek coke stroyed by fire December 11 will|las MacGowan, M.L.A get underway April 1 provided|sent algo. that the necessary preliminary arrangements are completed at | financial arrangements-insurance, that time. George A.. Nicholson, a mem- ber of the Town’s five-man =: (Counci > revolved fleavy drifting end slippery; were the worst on the old Char- was that the storm held up motor |) .o04 ot ahha: Gecions call giying little traction, highway. was delaying and in some places! poans CLEARED eompletely stopping motor traf- Wood teem Aiberten lest night | (C roads yesterday end tr i iF i i : -sasiNew Year Hope i cE Hy eu it : i ir : ‘ e apres ik Dates wld = SYDNEY (cP) — Post says the will Rand com-| accomplish their resolutions. é Hi i re- OTTAWA ( pied HHH Hilt porn ii rt ¢ traffic in Western Prince for 2 Continued on Page 3, Col. 2) |Vicinlty of $250,000, or approxim- =|Voiced In Canada ately $10,000 for each of the 2 rooms now ‘under considerat- a sani Catt Rusting = cPorimae said Causing Concern be built on| -Tomorrow being New| ittle rustling és causing major Year’s Day, the next, edi- concern to a portion of Central ‘east and west Kings County, it learned last Ce ee ih ns| ton Of the Guardian will | Doe was w Mr. Nicholson added that ad- | ditional plans still only in the J. Lincoin Dewar, New Perth said that a “responsible man” The text of the message ia “All the King’s horses and problems facing our how to cut down, and p oo the loss of life on wn “Apart ‘from Her Majesty’s ft, and the change in gove: which occurred during 1959, terrible loss of 30 lives on highways in the year jen should, I believe, be considere the year’s most notable oce rence. It is a blot on the hi of our fair province. (Continued on Page 2 Col. 8) Bonds Story ‘Is ‘Surprise’ vincial Treasurer eres Elsewhere in Canada, in com- i for i. ae ae munities such as Charlottetown! ing six million. dollars. and even smaller ones, it is be-| Mr. ‘Matheson recalled that. coming the established procedure} a recent argument with the Mix to pay at least some salary tc/ister, he had strongly Canada Bank eect = Highest Since October i people #nd our -roject secretary, J.E. Flemming, organized | (Ccn.inued on Page «, Cai &) will po = < satisfe tory |r. \ members of municipal coungils, the mayor said. Charlottetown’s/ rapid growth, resulting in he increases in business transacted by council, makes it desirable for the city to move in the same direction— to provide a token payment, if nothing more — in his opinion. “The duties of members of coun- cil, including the mayor, have| = a voluntary basis,” the mayor declared. SERVICES RE D In-his reference or com- parable to Charlottetown, the ma- ‘fioted on Oe ee ‘| mayor in Glace Bay is $5,000 per year while councillors are paid $700. Dartmouth pays its mayor $2,- Oe ae Fredericton, which is if pro- cess of amending its salary rat- es, now pays $1,000 to the mayor and $300 to each councillor, gested\ that something must done *o clean up the and stop the theft cattle from their fields. N e that provincial canal . something — $6.000. 00 wae Mr. McQuaid was as’ strong in his contention that the bonds totalled slightly ¢ $4,000,000. “It is strange indeed that 's Provincial Treasurer would ¢ tradict himself in such a —_, of time’’, Mr. Mati WHERE-TO- F NDIT Announcements, notices Births, deaths, elc., .. Classified section Comics, features “ss0ee eee eeeeee st eeeee