if it’s Good For the Island The Guardian is For it VOL. * NO. 92 THERE WAS NO HIDING PREMIER'S JOY AS BIG NEWS WAS REVEALED eee Peer Smet Oe oe ee eee rece Ss. it was Che Guardian WEATHER ae a few cloudy intervals, ¥ttle in temperature; light winda. ion kiah 26 calan “Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew” Shaw crac One er anreernenenents By DON MacLEOD Guardian-Patriot Staff Writer | in the history of Prince Edward , federation Island and will usher in a new way project * prosperity for the pro- = this cause- ADA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1962. NOT WORE SEVEN 2 PAGES DIEF BREAKS THE NEWS Causeway Se TR Date At Polls | Loudly Cheered By ALAN DONNELLY | what is expected ta he one of OTTAWA (CP) — The long- the election issues—his charge | awaited signal for a general | of delaying tactics and obstruc- election on Monday, June 18, | tion by the opposition which, he was flashed Tuesday by Prime | said, had made an early election Minister Diefenbaker. inevitable. His announcement —- starting Mr. Pearson met him on that gun for a two-month campaign | issue, saying the prime minis- that ommons mem impossible for the gov- | te Leader Pearson and | ernment with 203 members to) W. Herridge, CCF-New Dem. | get its legislation passed by the | igi Party House leader, buth 265-seat ons “unless the | ore the ending of weeks | opposition gave up the exercise y and declared | of its cherished rights of carry-— | thetr readiness to tackle the | ing out its duties.’’ | government at the polls. Dissolution of the present | Mr. Diefenbaker said the | Parliament, elected March 31, House will sit today and Thurs- | 1958, probably will come on day, if necessary, to deal with a | Thursday with Mr. Diefenbaker few pieces of government legis- | flying to Quebec City where lation and vote interim supply Gen. Vanier is in residence PRIME MINISTER Mainland © | era “The government of Canada, | through the Prime Minister, ‘e. am also ene ey has ae my "taith in this hepey in view of the f hat | proposal and after at various..times I tate worl the Conservatives tperty' i the Causeway,” as and I | be built. It is my answer to our mom jubilant Shaw yesterday after speaking by long distance . to Prime who that it had neen shes have declared were the Terai feasible and it pio June 18 Election Is Set: To Be Built At Cost 0f $105 Million Two Years ToDraw Plans, | 6 Years To Build, Is Belief By BEN WARD and “the government has now OTTAWA (CP)—A_ $105,000,- decided that a causeway will be built. - 000 causeway to link Prince Ed-| ~™,, ward Island with the mainland | The Durpose oe eee by the National Research Coun il “The most economical cross- ing for road and rail traffic ap- : undertaken has been to deter- pears to a combination of Canada was announced in the! mine whether the project would causeway with navigation locks Commons Tuesday by Prime) be feasible from an engineering and a bridge,” Minister Diefenbaker. eee _ oe ae from, Opposition L ee ee r Pearson 0 01 view There pbcot no mention of | “The aaa in both cases is dl ey ene i when work will start. nouncement ‘“‘on the eve of the in the affirmative.” The nine-mile causeway, com-| Parts o bined with navigation locks and| were his announcement e drowned out by the erup- election,’’ but wondered if “the cost of this causeway and other |& beidee, “would run between | tion of desk-thumping and ap-| great national undertakings in Jourimain Island, N.B., d| plause from government the fut w e future will not have to be Borden Point, | 2 Ell, along the benches. 7} out of eng deficits,”” | same stretch of the meso all The prime minister said an w. rridge, CCF -New Pere aan nd ce fe mportant part of the causeway japaatiats Bay House leader, e g Pr Peseenge for was the construction of a! said it is obvious that the cause: | ferry now oper ae is rs ae Sees of Cape Tormentine wher scale model of the area built; way is an “‘urgent cause.’ to y the government's bills creer will be the signal for ‘ive months or the official electoral machin- the P BL, ieee. reeds SI Then, he said, he will ask pr to swing into action. Cost | antalnas, and Borden is ms Governor-General Vanier to dis- of conducting the election— ferry terminal on the isla | solve Canada’s 24th Parliament | apart from party campaign ex- os E.I, has a population of rel | for an election June 18. penses—is estimated at $10,700,- Election day is the anniver- | 000 Cee the Commons, offi- The Liberal party already has announced in the House of Ganeies that the long-dreamed- of causeway between Prince Ed- ward Island and Can- ada is to become a reality. sincerely believed that from the | statement when we came into first . | power that we were the ‘party “As stated on a number of | of the causeway’ and that we occasions, a project of this size | would see it built if declared is a tremendous undertakin g, | feasible by top enginee and I have always contended | Premier Shaw, obviously “Now we can go await in flushed with ee at one | that any announcement as to its | the sure and certain conviction | stage > conversation with | feasibility would depend on the | that we'll finally have a cause- the Prime Minister said “that’s | completion of exhaustive stud- | way connecting us with the | all right, John—my blood pres-| ies which ,in some cases, in- | mainland, providing regular, sure has gone up, John <a the world’s best engin- | year-round transportation, from a smail er cers. NEVER LOST FAITH small province 1 hope vein will ‘7 essed c ; Vv NTS I find it difficult to express rt oe ay: years wa Gas a Com i w I feel about the announce- DEEPLY GRATIFIED vince | Conservative government t ha began a ferry service os | Broveet, mainland and it is I in promoting the faith | government I never lost had faith in the Prime fied I am about the announce-/| us and the ment that a causeway a & Colgerty tive that Mintetor—-teith that if it were thle and will be built. Tt is in- | will bring us yo complete ac- | feasible, he would put it through. eed a very outstanding event! cord with the terms of Con- he it’s feasible and economic- Hot Debate In Britain “= On Potato Regulation mod and the earth will bring egg tore with the | Boy - ‘the people or Edward Island share deep sense of Mor yng a happiness ove: today’s announcement."’ Secret Satellite of | Tt was on the afternoon of | The | ers in about two or three weeks Launched By U. S.| pane the aauaaaea of Confederat: | sary of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. | 139 candidates named. Progres- | sive Conservatives have 85 can- didates formally picked, the (Continued on Page 3 Col. 5) RAISES ISSUE The prime minister raised | Pleased Comment from the mainland way would be bull was en- Premier Stanfield of Nova e causeway = = di Z 3 < S & p a thusiastic. Scotia si . \ sai hear plans are definite for building it tends to strengthen the whole area, | and Prince Edward Island in ae particular Prime ae ae Diefenbaker's| ‘‘Imagine,'’ he said, eee Premier Stanfield said Nova will t Tuesday that the able to advertise an i Northumberland Strait Causeway | ocean drive. It would tates Scotia probably benefit “will be built . . . at a cost of | tourists from greater distances. | from both the building of the $105 million, climaxed six years | The entire Maritime area would | causeway and its presense af- ae almost > months of | benefit, not merely Prince Ed- sometimes hopeful | ward Island,” he observed. | eedling ‘since the ambitious Ject was first proposed. cel | ANAL YSIS OF COST | and those - want to do busi- Initial efforts were made to "5S there determine the. cost of a- full WELCOME NEWS survey and on firm of| In Fredericton AB yeetaho Premier L. Brisay said: January 26, 1956 that Neil oo) Matheson, then a Liberal mei acting New G. Des- alte New Brunswick govern- be built “to join Canada to pe economic analysis at that ‘canna wae ¢ rege and a ent welcomes this greatly as a erms of modern A top rank economic analyst | big step in the right direction | modern uae | Close to the government had | for economic development par- aa told an Island MP as early as ticularly for Prince Edward cohen bee Seeien Pes Prince Edward | (Continued on Page 3 Col. 7) (Continued on Page 2 Col. 2) cials said that engineers expect | lit will take two years to draw | | ae the plans and specifications | | for the project. They estimate | six years for the actual struction work. A works department Hai Announcement oe Islanders in and out highways to such centres = of politics hailed Prime Minister Montreal, Boston official Diefenbaker’s sudden and unex- York," J. David "evan rn stressed that so far only the| announcement Tuesday (Continued on Page 2 Col. 3) feasibility studies have been Prince i ton Island’s ~ con- completed. There was no deci- Causeway will be bu sion, for instance, on where the) Comments ranged tom an op- necessary bridge and naviga- | timistic ‘‘The Island touri tion opening would be built. It | ™ might even require two bridges. | The studies merely sought to determine whether the project was possible in view of the ice, wind, fisheries and _ shipping problems involved Late last year in a Charlotte- town speech the prime minister Stewart foresaw mn tourism while Charlottetown Mayor A. Walthen Gaudet called it “a forward move in the velopment and progress o province e~ of the referred to the road-and-rail Here are the opinions of pro- causeway as one of the most minent Islanders reached last difficult engineering problems | night ever tackled anywhere in the NEIL A MATHESON world, “After the passage of the The causeway has been advo- years it is a real pleasure to cated by islanders almost since| me to see this dream finally Confederation, It was one of Mr, | come true,” Neil A. Math Diefenbaker’s campaign prom-| former MP for Q oo for start. is, the man the ises in 1957 and 1958, > idea, said, The first suggestion for STUDY SINCE 1958 | the causeway came from Mr. Mr. Diefenbaker told the Matheson in the House of Com- mons in 1956 - Parliament » At A Glance By THE CANADIAN PRESS TUESDAY, April 17, 1962 Prime Minister Diefenbaker announced he will dissolve the 24th Parliament shortly for a federal general election June 18 Mr. Diefenbaker reported the government intends to build aa Prince Edward {s- land causeway, a $105,000,000 job The CCF-NDP group staged another blockade of divorce bills and drew a scathing at- tack from Robert McCleave (PC—Halifax), WEDNESDAY, April 18 The Commons meets at 2:30 | House that federal studies have } p.m. to debate government been going on since 1958 into J. DAVID STEWART legislation. The Senate meets the whole causeway question, ‘This will put us on the main at 3 p.m Island and the mai LONDON (Reuters) \% House of Commons remained in | time. session until the early hours of Opposition Labor MPs con- SANTA a Calif. today debating a government | tended that the government (AP) US. = ae | m potato regulation that has come | should have foreseen that bad launched a satellite because of a serious | weather would result in a poor denberg Air Force missile tase | under fire potato sr Hg arranged for imports | Tuesday — one so secret it| The regulation was proposed in wouldn't even give the time of | to restrict the The shortage has touched off | launch. | ae with new pota- The complete air force state-| r about twice their | ment said: “A satellite employing a Thor- | ena B booster combination ifting adjourned without was launched today by the aie | The ae eal ™m Vandenberg Air expansion po- tato crops because of a glut of | soaring _— Potatoes on the market im re- | toes selling fo cent years —e price at this time of | However, this year frosts have yea delayed “the maturing of the early potato crop and an acute taking any action on the regula- force fro shortage is expected by farm. | tion. Force Base. Belgium, Holland Demand Britain's Entry In ECM some Frenchmen who helieve The Hague are Ry JOSEPH E. DYNAN also a demand that Britain par- oo Beigiu te in negotiations for a Brussels and shnmaats % called a Foca cation union. r acting at Britain's behest. Common Tues- Luns and Spaak said later the The move appeared to mean that neither Belgium nor oa Netherlands, which have stron trade ties with oe inten | to be su a continental bloc dominated y the France | of President de Gaulle of by a) French-West German combine. All six ministers agreed that any treaty on political union | should be submitted to London for comment. Spaak and Luns’ position raised a new roadblock to West- ern European political «nity. day for Britain's admission to| ministers made some progress E Econottic Com-|on certain points of the pro- reel political treaty. But they all questions to the Feenes who were acting as This development. French conference spokesmen. Sources arose a POSITION CLEAR Meeting of the six Common French sources said Spaak Market ministers dis- made his position clear. He said cussing plans for political un- that as -_ as Britain was 7 outside uropean munity as a condition for politi- tal integration of Wentore Ew: | Common Market oo Paul-Henri Spaak of Rel-| Belgium al not sign a treaty and Joseph Pe - ‘The | on political union even if it con- lands served that formed fully to Belgian views their Belgians and Dutch thus and the six ministers separated er commen cr woul ne en on ate ; ye behind Brit- without issuing @ communique Britain has entered the Com-|ain’s application for Common or fixing a definite *<t> tar thei | the project met with some ms criticism even from Isl — for the modern the dream of cons- iemmmaieneien with Canada oe outweighed the opposition. SUPPORT RALLIED But Island a aie aa associated boards of trade moved to marshall for the proposal, which most Islanders saw as a major Project to point the way to new and hitherto undreamed of pos- ee Nt Wrovinclal develop. ie i ioaiee in the key 7 tourist industry expan. ar beyond anything proached in the past. ed] Robert Winters, then works minister and a cabinet spokes. man for the Island as well as his native Nova Scotia, observed the idea had t as tourist attraction potentiality. WHERE-TO-FIND-IT aa Announcements. notices 19 Finance, Markets 19 Births, deaths, ctc., 3-19 , sti0 we Comics, features eseees * Women's ‘ 7 Kings Co., ....... Seeee « City, Queems ........... 5 CEES sy wus sdueevecses 14-15 BORNE . .. vi vevsvvess. £ evnves es 3 Prince Co., ......66.0000- ’ Mon Market. te effect. this was Market membership. Co - _ Proposal the ai 2 STARS INDICATE APPROXIMATE ROUTE A APPRO Arrow Ne. 1 voints te stars showing Causeway route while arrow No. 2 indicates proposed N.B. VED FOR CAUSEWAY, TO WEST OF LINE TAKEN RY FERRIES terminus at Jourimain Island, north and west of Tormenting a.