‘Centennial Year Most Active For PEI. Red Cross Society of Summerside itiation of a safety program with- by 44 boys of a home care, wo sign qe THREE OF the 11 volun- teers who became the charter members of the newly-estab- lished ‘Red ‘Cross Centenary Volunteers Club’’ are being presented to Lieutenant Gov- ernor W.J. MacDonald prior to the Red Cross Annual Meeting dinner held last night Memor- jal Centre. Left to right are Sinclair Cutcliffe and Mrs. J. F. Moore, both of Charlotte- town, Lieut..Gov. MacDonald and Mrs Reg Eldershaw of Tignish, a Guardian corres- pondent. Other members are, OFFICERS NAMED AT ANNUAL W.A. Currie Clectea™ P.E.I. Division of the Canadian Red Cross Society at the group's “spresident * of the zim the confines. of the. Red Cross. It is planned that the ¢irst aid, L.G. Gillespie, Hilda Jenkins, | Mrs. John, MacFarlane, Mrs. Maicolm MacDonald, Geral- dine O’Brien and Mrs. Robert Coffin of Charlottetown, and Mrs. Louise Manderson of New Annan, and M -. Hugette Vessey of Miscouche: course...On__¢ letion of the| Sydney ..... ee, ane ely y ive! Yarmeati water safety and Junior Red | volunteer hospital service during | St. John's, Nfld. .. Boston annual meeting in Charlottetown | Cross committees will co-oper- the summer months, and at least yesterday. Other officers named includ- ed: J. Gordon MacDonald, past president; Judge C. St, Clair Trainor, vice-president; Mrs. A. C. Green, Alberton. vice-presi- dent for Prince County; Lt. Col. E.W. Queens vice-president; J.B. Jay, Morell, Kings vice-presi- a grant of $1,750 from the pro- | dent. Chairmen of standing com- mittees for the coming * year are: Dr. K.A. Parker, Junior Red Cross; Mrs. F.W Hynd- man, women’s work; Mrs. He- len Bolger, nursing; F.A-S. Jones, blood donor; Dr. W.R. Stewart, first aid; Mrs. LE. Prowse, volunteers; W.R. Jen- kins, finance; Frank MacDon- ald, disaster; lan Rankin, water safety; Mrs. Benja in Rogers, awards; Cyril J. Flinn, public relations. The report of the incial com. ‘ssioner. IpLige! Arsen- ault, noted that special Red Cross_activities were undertak- ~en to mark~the-1964 Centennial. ACTIVITIFS These included Centennial blood donor clinics, Centennial competitions sponsored by the Junior Red Cross at elementary and high school levels, the pro- vision of. mobile first aid posts at some 15 Centennial celebra- tions through the province, larg- | known as the Black Liberation) est enrolment ever in water safety classes, and the inaugur- ation of the Centenary Volun- teers Club”. Twelve charter me-sbers of|a United Nations party given! the club, who had given 100 or more hours of recorded volun- teer service during 1964, recetv- ed membe.ship pins at last night’s dinner meeting from Lieut.-Gov. W.J. MacDonald. Also presented last night was the Manning Trophy to Marcus Mooney, chairman of the blood donor committee of Souris Legion. The Souris donor clinic was the best one of the year, SAFETY STEPS lf Hi | acl i ! tit ne Ne bi i E It 1 5 ie | ating BLE . “§ ie : ate in setting up such program. |ocigts ty 91.908 tar the year. Of the $54,000 required to fin- ;ance the division's activities, |): | Johnstone, Burlington, |$30,600 came from the United|€®, % persons, 1,100, attended | | Appeal, and the balance included vincial government; $1,200 from the ‘Wishing Well” at Burling- | ton, and bequests of $2,778 from the estate of the late Penelope Colgan of Charlottetown | $300 from the estate of the late Fane Hawkins of Murray Har- | JR. RED CROSS showed a membership. of 20,177 |in 781 branches in the province. \It was .noted that Miscouche | High School. had won the “Lady's Slipper”’ award for the greatest |participation in various activi- jties, and Parkdale Elementary received first place in‘ the ele- mentary competition. The year saw the completion iby 115 high school girls..of a jteen home nursing course and a |50 high school students helped at! New York .. blood clinics. The past year was termed “‘the | most active ever’ for first aid Fe volunteers. Some 248 volunteers | |treated about 600 persons at| | First Aid Posts. A record num-| | first aid classes. } | EXPANSION Expansion of the water safety | | prectane included the inaugura- | tion of a weekly swim period at |the YMCA for retarded children |from Sherwood Hospital. Some) |7,778 students attended swim-| |ming and water safety classes, | |an increase over 1963 of 8.4 per) | cent. | Assistance totalling $1,437 was jgiven 25 families by the disas- jter committees for fire during the year. ‘The women's work committee jteported approximately 1,526 | volunteers had worked knitted and Pakistan | The Visiting in its third year reported a volunteers in vice”, now Operation, 45 | (Continued from page 1) | Negro extrem i's t “organization | Front. CONTACT AT PARTY Murphy said Wood's original contact with the group came at | by the Cuban delegation. “Did they have anything to do with the UN?” the commis- sioner was asked. “ " know,” Murphy replied. Promoting Wood to detective on the spot, Murphy told ‘re- porters: “There was nothing lucky about this. An undercover man militant ideology with the Chin- ese Communists. The commuis- called the organization “extremely militant and far to the most extreme even the Black ” ; z § HI i | i i 5 if fi ei i | | | a | i if ue e si i | i] dl F g.ff £ t | field”’ sit “ship of lottetown | making it the largest I party in Quebec. Its name in A spokesman for French-lan-| | guage television station CFTM in Montreal said Miss Duclos appeared on a weekly, 15-min- jute interview program. She joined CFTM, a private | station. in 1961 as an announ-| cer; left after six or seven |months, worked in ‘the artistic | and then went overseas | im 1963, the spokesman said: ‘} She was reported to have vis- | ited Europe and Algeria for a WEATHER. TORONTO (CP) — Tempera- ny by acclamation herr East Ward" se t D. Alex MacDoifald, who nounced some time ago he would | coming a senator. not re-offer. Mr Schurman last} served on the council from 1962 | Ward, was bor. and lived in this | He |James-C. Pope. nouncement. Mr. Schurman contested the | ternal left vacant by | MacArthur Sr., was in the pro- an- . |to 1964, being defeated then by |town all his life. He is married Grant Mollison who is the other |to the former Georgie Lockhart | road. Mr. Johnston will contest the | ston can look back to ancestors Mr. Pope’s great grandfather, was the first | vineial legislature and his ma- grandfather, Creelman vincial legislature before be- Mr. Pope, a resident of Center | 37 |representative in this ward. of Summerside and the, have | 44 Two new faces in the civie po- | three children 46 | litical scene threw their hats in NOT MUCH INTEREST 39 |\the ring yesterday, both young| When contacted yesterday af- 42 mee. alone with two veterans in ‘er nominating. aya og said civie affairs. |““I thought I wou en' Winnipeg .......... 8 12 |_ The eee eae eve polities pha So Pope, , presiden Pope Mo- much in ils year so poronte seccerecces . = tors here and Eric Johnston, {1 thought I might as well enter Montreal 2” O37 president and owner of John- the political scene now as la- Quebec eecveceee 13 3 ston’s Léd., a heating and sheet | ter’ . Fredericton 15 41_:~—«| @tAL_contracting business. |. Mr. Johnston, whose ‘grand- coe eateeee . CONTEST CENTRE WARD jfather, Thomas W. Jo » Sain MD ceeices Mr. Pope will contest the Cen-|served on the council in the Moncton cocdessece == 36 \ter Ward seat, vacated by Coun, | 1920's, and for a number of years alifax ........... @ 36 =|Garnet Ross, along with former | was the town's fire chief, is a Charlottetown ..... 14 34 | councillor and mayor J. Ernest | ative of Scmmerside and a re- a Coun, Ross is unable |Sident of the West Ward. He is — “tn vie . a ‘tour sent eae or eo United | 5°" Jeanaten tiated. teat sass Miami ............ 72 81 Besides her husband and par-|20 other candidate came for. New Orleans ...... 53 53 ents, Mrs. Nickerson is survived eda ae the West Ward Tucson .........0. 27 58 |by two daughters, Linda and |‘ | hs Coun. Wood he felt Los Angeles ...... 42 68 y fitting that voters be of- HALIFAX (CP) — The wea- ther office say much colder air moved into western and north- ern New Brunwick Tuesday evening. Campbeliton’s tempera- 5 p.m. to chilly 16 at 10 p.m. Cloud amounts were variable throughout the district much colder air is ex- | Glasgow, Goshen and 15 and 22, Charlottetown and Moncton 10 and 17. than Charlottetown.. Sun. rises today at 704 a.m. and sets at 5.51 p.m. |few months before returning to | Montreal at Christmas, } \ | UN sources said | Miss | tion f fe ip f x i i r : i : S and gradu Kathy, and a brother, Hugh, of | Toronto. | Mrs. Nickerson was a native | Tepresent them in the council. of Charlottetown, ed from Edgehill School in Windsor Premiaset ia Yorueath com-| at- for \the Prince County Horsemen's fered a choice of candidates to | Mr. Johnston is president of Club which operates the k; te” sum past president local of Giv to a new pos'tion with the rail- | SUrevy | provide in THE LECTURE THEATRE _ THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, li ed and time ISLAND NEWS PAGE Serious Consideration Western And Central Districts The Guardian, Charlottetown, Wed., Feb. 17, 1965. 3 Schurman Elected: New Faces In Race . SUMMERSIDE BUREAU OF THE GUARDIAN A veteran of eizht years in cli- vic affairs, Herbert Schurman, | West Ward seat, now held by ve- ‘was elected to the town council |teran campaigner Leo Wood who yesterday | also nominated yesterday., when he was unopposed during! Both Mr, Pope and Mr. Jobn- | nomination jay proceedings. On being told of his victory, | who were prominent in polities. Mr. ‘Schurman. said ‘I am glad! to be back on the council” jad been und. ided on whether | premier of P.E.I. His paternal to offer for some time but. some | grandfather, George Pope, re- | , two weeks ago he made his an- | presented Sth Prince in the pro-| was of “two minds” t now to discuss it” E F §f2i Fr me ze Fag zt ge 3 peae __« OPENS TOMORROW FRIDAY & SATURDAY © en lo Civil omperagins,noanis = ion, oo é > vil Defence & ‘ i: e £ F i i it i Fg is i t if } *F ! i dl [ it i i cfty Ht i iF | £ i F i a : i priE i ati efeer 7 F it E i H F i sf a i i age i | ! rs i t j ; i 1 Ff