I \ .‘r ’- I ,1» it It's Good For The island The Guardian Is For It ' “Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew” @Itlc Monasticism WEATHER Sunny and much milder; light winds. Saturd Low-high 5 and 32. over, rain late in day. ay: clouding Authorised as Second Clu- Mall by Department. Ottawa. and for payment the Poet other of postage In cub Farmers Reported Feeling Let Down By Federation "The provincial federation of agriculture is not accomplishing VOL. LXXVII. N0. 304 marketing agency in the pro- department seek an explanation . Vince. He said that at a later of the wide variation in the “young regarding a marketing meeting “the producers chang- prices of twines used in farm system and in. general farmersyed their minds when the chips production. feel let down by the lack of ac- were down. In effect. the criti-l One resolution pointed out complish-ment of the federation." cism should be levelled at the! that it is rumored that the fed- Charlottetown potato dealer Leo producers. If producers: eral government plans to ,dis- Illaclsaac said last night. . could make up their minds what continue its assistance Policy He was taking part In discus-1they want then the» federation. on ground limestone and asked sions during consideration of re- .would support them." i that action be taken the t solutions at the annual meeting. A pas. member M me New; continuation of the present sub- to- . year old Burnham. a Negro 0’ "1“ Queens CWDW FEderatIOB tion executive. Roland MacDon- of Agriculture at the regionall hi"'l school in Hunter River. ald. Southport. dent at last fall‘s meeting in Under consideration at theSuwmeaside that "growers get. finm n-ns a resolution that the ting $1.40 per 75 pound bag of federation work with and assist produce" groups in organizing marketingv procedures. M". Vat-Isaac said potato pro- ducers left the resnonsibility "do‘r" something ‘owards a marketing agency with the fed-‘ erotic" but negotiations seem to have broken down." He said the general reaction of 1,100 farmers boils down 'u‘n things "The 'cderation has accomplished nothing as far as a marketing system is concern- \d and the federation is being wcakened because of a lack of a militant approach to the pro- blcm PRODUCERS USED "Potato producers are 5 t i1 liscd." he said. “This wee Mr. ilacisaac went on. "1 se “1'? t-arloads of potatoes to De-,T “‘0”. Farmers here got $1.45il‘00kel scored its (“‘5‘ lest ili'lhi studving the spacecraft’s course per has but those potatoes were taken into Detroit and Windsor and sold as Idaho bakers for asflaunch Platform Which in turn. Without the manoeuvre Marl h.” much as nine cents eac .\lr. llaclsaac said “now we are getting a good price for po-. The US. Air Force reported .camera - carrying vehicle to k tatocs but how long must we wait before something is done in the way of a marketing ag- Ency'.’" Provincial federation secre- tary Lincoln Dewar reviewe the meetings of potato produc- ers who said at one time that they wanted a plebiscite held on the desirability of setting up a Plane Crashes In Tennessee CHARLESTON. Tenn.. iAPl— The highway patrol said a large aircraft cras e burned near here Thursday night. Wit- nesses were quoted as saying it was a military plane. Air force planes were re- ported to be circling the crash site to direct searchers. The Di-‘ lot of one air force plane was quoted as saying the downed craft was of the c-iao troop car- -ter type. of i ipotatocs were sleeping on a bed of roses. Their attitude was let !next vcar so to hell and look af- gter itself.” iP'"fl'-“TIONS Eleven resolutions were given consideration .meeting. 5 It was resolved that the feder- jation press the provincial de- lpartment of agriculture to make a study of the availibility of ‘parf-s and service for farm ma- chinery. l 11 was also asked that the i .S-pace Rocket ‘ Has First Test l l . l nt‘ CAPE KENNEDY. Fla. ’APl. he Titan Ill military space 3‘success Thursday. hurling its lthird stage into orbit as a flying :kicked a dummy satellite into a separate orbit, 1complete success for the rocket ‘which is slated to play a k-y ‘role in future manned and unv lmanned military space mis- Il sions. at last night's, l l the eastern region of Canada in regard to feed grain assist- j ance was called for. ; he meeting called for a con- Eference among bank managers " “with a view to discussing mat- l lers relating to farm financing." Ernocassnso PLANTS ‘ In regard to processing plants in the province. 3 resolution asked that “careful study he 'Continued on page 5 col. 7l ‘ Mariner IV To Pass Near iMarsln July l PASADENA. Calif. iAPl 'Mariner IV will pass within 5.400 miles of Mars next Julv 14. Jet Propulsion Laboratory lscientists said Thursday after lafter a direction-changing ma- lnoeuvre Dec. 5. i ner lV would have missed Mars sidy . said it was evi__> Equalization of prices over‘ - CHARLO'I'I‘ETOWN, CANA'H FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1964. Flag NOT THAN M03! bv 151.000 miles—too far for the iperform its mission — tai .good pictures : At a press conference Thurs- lday scientists at the laboratory. lwhich built and is guiding Mar- liner IV on its 325,000.000-mile Hg l PM SETTLES GAMBLING DEBTj EDMONTON (CPI — Prime Minister Pearson has settled an old gambling debt. . In November he bet Ed- monton reporter Jim Hume $1 the Hamilton Tiger-Cats would defeat the British Columbia Lions in‘ the Grey Cup. Lions won 34-24. Mr. Hume received in the mail Thursday a cheque for $1 and a personal note from Mr. Pearson apologizing for the delay. ’curving flight through space. said accuracy of the course will allow the space- chan craft to perform an important scientific experiment. Mariner IV now will fly be- ,hind Mars instead of in front of lit. which means radio signals from the spacecraft will travel 'through the Martian atmos- phere en route to earth. Changes in the signal due to the atmosphere 'are' Cxpedté to yield new information an den- sity of the Martian atmosphere and thus provide a clue as to lwhether the mysterious planet 8 lcould support any form of life. 1. Wilson Reports Successful Trip MANCHESTER (APi—Prime Minister Harold Wilson told a British television audience this North American trip was “tre- mendously successful.” Wilson spent two days With President Johnson in Washing- ton and two with Prime Minis-1 ter Pearson in Ottawa. "We have got it a lot clearer that a first aim must be. to stop the spread of nuclear weapons We must stop the spread of. fingers on the nuclear trig- er and we think we have con- vinced the Americans of this as well." he said. iHope Fades B. Guiana's PM GEORGETOWN (Reuters)— Leftist Cheddi Jsgan said Thursday night he would not step down as prime minister of British Guiana and served no- tice that the British govern- metnt would have to force him on Jagan's Peoples Progressive party emerged as the biggest Single party in the self-ruling British colony’s general elec- tron Monday. but failed to win a clear ma rity. The 46-year-old .Isgan. told a press conference: “The B tish government will have to force me out. Let t do what they can. They're run- ning this country by decree and will probably continue to do so." agan. of East Indian der scent. made his statement as it appeared almost certain that g‘egplzfrlek to; the 1 Opposition s a one Co rela Forbes Burnham. would If?ng a coalition government with the United Forces party. Jason had said he would open coalition negotiations with the To Quit lawyer whose party took second place in the election. But Burnham. whose party is supported largely by Negroes who compose 35 per cent of the lpopulation. told Jagan he pre- ferred to confer with Peter D'Aguiar. leader of the UP, which ran third in the election. Jason said he told British Guiana’e Governor. Sir Richard Luyi. the election was a fraud. and be blamed the British and United States governments for giving financial backing to the opposition parties. For 2 Ships HALIFAX iCPl-The Atlantic Ocean Thursday continued to. hide the fate of 19 men missing with their two ships since a fierce storm struck the Mari-. times early in December. Some wreckage and an oil. slick sighted Tuesday strongly indicated neither the 131i - foot‘ lsteel trawler Acadia Seahawk ‘out of Canso. N.S.. and her 14- ‘man crew and the Marie Carole 1 out of the Magdalen Islands would ever be seen again. A spokesman for Acadia fish- eries Limited of Mulgrave. N.S. The oil slick was sightedI south of Sable Island where the Seahawk was believed Other wreckage was miles east of Canso where the Marie Carole had been trawl~ l . n8 NEW YORK fAPl—The Duke of Windsor will enter Metho- dist Hospital ln Houston. Tex, Mondayfor arterial surgery. an aide announced Thursday. The operation will be per- formed by Dr. Michael de Ha- key, professor of surgery at Baylor University's college of medic e t announcement la . The aide would not go into de tails about the specific nature of the ailment. or how long the King Edward . has been troubled by i: Bowever. it was reported at Methodist Hospital that he is suffering from a possible no dominal Ineurlsym—a oon lag of an artery In the abdomen. De Bakey has not examined the 70-year-old duke. but riot:- caring for mended the surgery. the aide said e duke plans to depart from New York. w re he -s residing. and will be accompan- ied by the due as. the former Mrs. Wallis Warffeld Simpson, on American divorcee for whom he abdicated the British throne in 936 She recently underwent minor foot surgery in New York and has promoted. the aide acid. Aboo talroomhubeenrr and hunctholhko‘s DukeOfWindsor Faces Operation rats is Dr Mlcael De- Bakey. professor of surgery at Baylor University's College fishing. U . any more evidence." said on- ert Owen. a juitice departmenv ‘commissioner‘s ruling showing charged is. with conspiracy to ‘ Wilson also said he had en- tirely reserved Britain‘s posi- tion on the multilateral nuclear force proposed by Washington as a means of giving members of the Atlantic Alliance. especi- all est Germany. a say in the use of nuclear weapons. ‘19 Charges' Dismissed ’1 u said little hope was held for the i n a Seahawk. ‘ . r MERIDIAN, Miss. (APl-—A .S. commissioner dismissed charges Thursday against 19 white men arrested last week in connection with the mid-sum- mer slaying of three civil rights workers in Neshoba County. Surprised by an abrupt turn in a preliminary hearing for 1 of the 21 men. the justice dc- partment announced it would take its case directly to a fed- eral grand jury as soon as nos- ' le. Miss Esther Carter, the fed- eral commissioner. blocked gov- ernment efforts to give testi- 2 :- FBI charges with helping no conceive an carry out a Ki Klux Klan-inspired plot to mur- der the trio. "We will simply not produce attorney. The commissioner dismissed the charges and the 19 men walked out free men just sit deputy Cecil Price. In a joint statement. the 14- defence lawyers claimed the in effect their clients were not 8U Ii. The 21 white men were air. rested last Friday. The FBI interfere wtth the federal rights of the slain trio. The other two were accused of being accesso- Four mayors of the city of Ottawa met Thursday night at . the traditional pigtail dinner of the Knockers Clu of busi- 1 nessmen. They are. left i lToCriiicismOf His Service By ED WALTERS HALIFAX (CPI — Failure in MAY-0R5 or OTTAWA PAST AND PRESENT right: Mayor Charlotte on. (1952-56 and 1960-64) , mayor Stan Lewis (1936-1948 with an honorary plate; ex- m-ayor George Nelns (1957- \Vllit- § X' Coast Guard Chief Replie an I) o n .. who defeated Miss W‘hit. ml : mayor-elect Reid ton in Monday's civic elec- tions. (CP Wirephofn) S j fenbaker. 9 until Prime Minister Pearson j. cleared up his party's position . on the flag E berland) said the recommenda- on the flag design would not he .- allowed to come to a vote until government switched SEVEN CENTS OTTAWA iCPl —— The Comv mons voted down Thursday a Conservative dment cal‘- ing for a plebiscite to decide the issue of a distinctive national flag for Canada despite a final plea by Opposition Leader Die- Conservatives indicated are prepared for another round of speeches on the issue—it was not known for how long—and one said there would be no Vila Robert C. Coates t'PC—Curii- tion by a Commons committee Mr. Pearson and his ministers answer such questions as why its flag ~ ing the design recommended by allegiance and just how the cou- ernment would proceed in mak- the committee a national flag. The plebiscite vote came in the ninth day in the current c apler of the flag debate. on the report tabled Oct. 29 by the special flag committee. A ma- jority of the committee recom- mended a single red maple leaf they ag 16 PAGES ' Plebiscite Motion, Is Defeated 153 To 82‘ Tories Get Set _ For New Round son in a national plebiscite would become acceptable to a majority of Canadians. He said the flag proposed by the Commons committee is lili- acceptahle to his party because it contains nothing to represent the British and French herit; as “Do not, do not fear own in this nation the whole history of our past,” he said. ' ‘ e reading of history proves that a nation which for- gets its past dondemns its fu~ This design forgets our past. He ra ed the government for shifting its support from the three-leaf resolution introduced last spring to the single — leaf design recommended by the committee. ‘ Creditiste Leader Real Caou- ette accused Mr. Diefenbaker of falseness in his speech after the opposition leader stopped one heckler with the remark that "one can take a donkey and give him arguments but one cannot give him the sense to understand.” PROTEST DISMISSED Speaker Alan Macnaughton ruled out the protest and said design. with most Conservatives dissenting. Seven Quebec ConservativeS.‘ including Leon Balcer. Mr. Die- ‘1 fenbaker’s Quebec lieutenant. .voted against the plebiscite pro- 1 posal. ‘ Prime M i n i str r Pearson lcalled for an immediate vote on em lthe flag recommended by the icommitlee ‘ tives objected and the Commons lturned to the regular Thursday ' hour I private members ' The flag debate resumed at government .Mr. Diefenbaker had named un- ‘ , in particular and the “term could be applied to any- one in the chamber." A flag plebiscite should be ‘open to all Canadians aged in land over and list at least five alternatives, Mr. Diefenbaker These were the Red Ensign. but the Conserva- a modified ensign incorporating a French symbol. lmaple leaf. 1 sign introduced last May by the a modified ers aground and apparently traps preparatory to the sea-lg pm with Mp5 speaking this single‘leaf flag incorporating a lrescue two Nova Scotia lobsrer<men a oar fishermen last week before they .: idrifted helplessly out to sea in a violent storm has stirred up a gale of controversy over alleged inefficiency of marine rescue organizations on the Atlantic coast. ‘ Rear-Admiral A. H. G. Storrs. lchief of the Canadian Coast iguard. defended his organiza- tion Thursday against criticism by southwestern Nova [fishermen and businessmen who 0 0 2?. h lblame "fair weather ships" and poor rescue co - ordination tor the deaths of the two men Interviewed as he was leavmg for Ottawa after conducting a post-mortem on coast guard ac- tivities during the two - dav storm Dec. 1 and 2. Admiral Storrs said he. believes every- thing possibie was done to save the lives of Philman Quinland and James Smith of Storny Is- land. NS. The men apparently were drowned after their 38-foot lob- ster boat Jean and Judy cap- sized about 40 miles off Cape Sable where she had been driven by winds exceeding 100 miles an hour. Their overturned. boat was found Dec 3. The gale and its 50-foot waves wrecked one ship. put two oth- of Medicine, who is schedul- ed operate on 70-year- old Duke of Windsor In Metho- dist Hospital. Houston. Tex. next Monday. (AP Wirephoto) surgery would not-involve tile itself. the aide replied' "I cannot give you that assur- m.-h Dc Bakey ls famed n a car- m m asked for mun-co the diocesequ surgeon ties. INSIDE TODAY Births. deaths . . . . .. 3. 14 Classified . . . . . . H. 15 Comics . . . . . . . . . . .. 13 S . . . . lo 'I . . . . . . . . . . .. 1 Pinocchio-theta .. is. lingo. Queen. as”? s no. spam Victor Dryer (left). who Ian week I'D as control of tho lilsland Nov. 30 to set lobster i Committee OTTAWA (CPI -— Rejecting Conservative protests. the Com- mons industrial relations com-; mittee voted in closed sessioni Thursday to postpone until Jan-1 nary its questioning of the iod- eral maritime union trustees. Committee chairman Bryce Mackasey (L — Montreal V‘cr- dunl told reporters afterwards that. the vote was 16 to 8 ill favor of delaying public hoar- ings until after the three trlls-. tees file their first annual report 1 with Labor Minister Mac-l Eachen. . l Michael Starr (PC—Ontario .; former Conservative la'bor min-i ister. said his party has “many. many questions" about the Sea- farers‘ International U n in n . Inn-lime onion Bustees. talks with Cannons Industrial Re- lltttllo Mite. Chair' man Quinland and Smith left Stonv did not return by midnight lgine broke down and when they iby the committee. tContinued on page 5 col. Postpones Questioning Trustees (1nd) to put to the trustees. It wasn't necessary to wait for any report. He said the seven Conserva lives at the committee meeting had pressed for immediate pub- lic hearings and forced a re- corded vote on a Liberal.motlon to adjourn the committee until after Jan. 15. One Liberal. (lcrald Regan (Halifaxl. voted with the Con- servatives against other Liber- als and two NDT’ members. TRUSTEES ATTEND The closed session was at- tcndcd by the thrce trustces— Mr. Justice Victor Dryer of Vancouver. Juwc chc Lippe of Montreal aifil ('harlcs Millard of Toronto. ~ "my .-' $3;le Ag... Bryce Maelcaoey prior to testi- fying before the committee in Ottawa 'i‘hmdsol. t the 7 i. :PLEBISCITE SUPPORTED l The pebiscite amendment. lil- g‘troduced Nov. 30 by a1 0 Monteith lPC—Perthi. was sup- ported by 78 Conservatives. in- cluding one Quebec MP. Theo- gene Ricard (ST. Hyacinthe - Bagotl. two New Democrats and two Social Credit members all four from British Columbia. Th. ' erals voting the amendment were 12 Creditistes. seven Social Credit servatives. NDP Leader Douglas. his de- puty Douglas Fisher and David Orlikow iNDP —- Winnipeg Northl were absent. So were. two Quebec Conservatives eorge Valade (Montreal Ste. Mariel and Clement Vincent tNicolet - Yamaska) —— and Ralph Cowan (York—Humberl. the only Liberal MP on record in favor of the Red Ensrgn. Altogher, 30 MP5 missed the ‘vote. 1 Mr. Diefenbaker spoke for fit) lminutes. arguing that a maple ileat‘ flag approved by Parlia- 'ment would split the country deeply. 0n the other hand. a flag chu- MPs and the seven Quebec Con- a lswallowed two trawicrs with i9.snn's opening Dec. 1. Their on- [time on the flag recommended small Union Jack and fleur-de lls. The last design had been submitted by the Conservative members of the flag committee Mr. Diefenbaker asked What! the government proposes to prtv ceed wit a separate recom- imendation from the committee that the Union Jack be pro- laimed the. symbo of Canada's ies with the British Crown and [Commonwealth Mr. Pearson replied that he intends to ask Committee Chat!" man Herman Batten (L—~Hum- . Georgel to proceed With e Union Jack debate as soon _ the current debate ends. Robert Coates (PC—Cumber- llandl said as the flag debate re- :sumed after the supper adjourn- gment that the Conservatives wouldn‘t allow the main motion jto come to a vote until Prime | Minister Pearson and other cab- inet ministers answered some questions. c t ‘ the government iswitched its allegiance from the three-leaf flag to the present de- sign recommended by the com ‘mittee’.’ How would the govern- lment proceed with making the ,single leaf flag the national banner? Did it intend to pass jan order-in-council in favor of .the three-leaf design? Africans ’ZWhiies' UNITED NATIONS 'CPl- ‘African delegates for the sec- . fond day Thursday continued to attack as a cynical and racist. _ Itages held by Congolese rebels. Western diplomats. braced for sharp criticism in the Security Council debate on the issue. ‘lwere shocked and dismayed by the harshness of the attack. . Guinea's foreign minister CI.ouis Lansana Reavogul blamed the killing of whlfr- hos- fagcs by the rebels in Stanley- villc directly on intervention by Belgian paratrooper-s. dropped from American planes, Before the intervention. he isaid. mercenaries of the central government supported by US, aircraft had “massacred hun- ;drcds and hundreds of innocent Congolese." But nobody cared then. he said because "their skins were black like those in Mississippi." i Moise Tshombe. premier of Congo. IS on his way to the UN .to present counter-charges that lothcr \frican countries are sup- porting the rebellion against his regime He called on Pope Paul It the Vatican Thursday and received a Papal appeal for peace in The Congo. Mammadou Ba the ani for- ieign minister. said the Stanley- Attack Rescue .ville operation was a deliberate and gross subterfuge designed to destroy “the bulwark of true Africanism in The Congo. where the flame of Patrice Ltimumbo was still shining brightly." He scoffed at American and Belgian protestations that the operation had been undertaken for humanitarian rcasons at the request of the country‘s local government, \lzel‘la's iiclczair. Tr u fl is Rollotloura. accused the \mcr- icons and Belgians of "premedi- tated aggression . to protect their sordid llltcresls.“ He said the lives of the Stan- lcyville hostages "surely were not seriously thrcalcned" fore the operation and that they had been killed "after the Rel ciao-American azzrcssion and because of it." The consistently I'Fll‘lal tone of the African statements has pa: ficularly disturbed Western del- egates hcre. However. Senegal‘s in re i g n minister complained earlier this week his African colleague: uprr going to the council like "cackling hens" without examining fhetr own consciences. . Belgium's foreign minister Paul-Henr Spaak was expec to defend it‘s country's action lin the council today. ‘