It It’s Good For The Island The Guardian Is For It Elmo @um i “Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew” WEATHER Sunny with a few cloudy periods; light Winds. Low-high 45 and 67. VOL. LXXVII. NO. 135 Second Authorised :- Clu- Dcpartnisnt. om'l: MEDALS PRESENTED AT A reception. and dinner tendered by Prince of Wales College for the members of the Royal Society of Canada was held last night at Mont- gomery Hall. Seen here. lel to right are: Dr. G. Krotkov. of the department of biology. Queen’s University who was awarded the Flavelle Medal at the dinner: Dr. Frank Mac- Kinnon_ principal of PWC: and Dr. Maurice Lebel. president of the Royal Society who Mall by the Post Office nod for payment d pangs h out ROYAL SOCIETY spoke on "The Genesis and Evolution of the Notion of Research." Also receiving awards were Mrs. Ethel Wil- son. Vancouver. the Lorne 'Pierce medal for oustavndjng contribution to Canadian lit- erature. in absentia: Rosaire Resentment To Quebec Is Uncovered In NtId. By RON LEBEL ST. JOHN'S. Nfld. (CF)— The royal commission on bilin- gualism and biculturalism un- c o v e r e d some resentment against Quebec on the issues of language and the control of ore- rich Labrador here Monday. “We don‘t want to lose Lab- rador to Quebec." one woman eald bluntly as 70 community leaders met at Memorial Uni— versity for informal group dis. oussions sponsored by the com. mission. Later. at a general meeting attended by 130. fears were ex- pressed that French Canadian. may form up to 70 per cent of the Labrador population in .1 few years and press for union with Quebec or status as the 11th province. Most of the lines of comma- nlcations to Labrador orig- in in Quebec rather inau Newfoundland. Speakers called for new links to tie Labrador. more closely to this island. A participant in a group discus- sion commented: "Newfoundlanders come back and say. 'the damn Frenchmen are getting all the good jobs in Labrador'." ' This was a new slant for hie commission. which was told by French-Canadians at prevxous meetings in Quebec that “Ies A university professor said French - Canadians get more promotions in the Labrador projects simply because they stay there longer. Newfound- landers liked to return home after about six months to main- tain family and community tics and perhaps do some commei. cial fishing. DlSLlKE MAINLANDERS A woman who moved here re. candy from Montreal said. “Ne‘iivfoundlandershave no me for mainlanders in general. lt'sI not a question of language." 1961 census listed 5.300 bilingual Newfoundlanders and 522 residents who speak French only out of a population of 45': - 853. (Total population currently is estimated at more than 490,- 000). It was argued that the lam of malified French teachers speak the Iangu the spread of F. foundlsng sc no mikep ill!“ value of including French in the cur- riculum. courage ' .ew- and the lack of opfiortunities to mining SEW!“ f0? VISAW‘S «an 1‘5, mum stated that they have not. CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1964. Full-Time I I DINNER Dion-Levesque. Nashua, N.H.. I the Pierre Chauveau medal far Canadian literary produc- tion of high order and Marcel Trudcl. Laval University, Quebec city. the Tyrrcll mcd- al for contributions to the study of Canadian History. EPA Reports No Trouble With Trottic Eastern Provincial Airways is experiencing no difficulty in keeping up with the traffic to. and from Prince Edward Island» during Centennial Year. . That's the word from com-i pany officials. who expressed great surprise over a newspap- [er story yesterday that stated EPA was having trouble main-. ' to i Prince Edward Island. I Yesterday company officials . left a I passenger— behind snd~4hey felt confident their service f would be more than adequatel Several native Newfoundland- ers disagreed. however. They felt Canada should emulate tiie United States and require all citizens to speak English. They accused the commission of be- ing part of a federal govern- ment drive to “force French on the majority" because of politi- cal pressure from Commission co-chairman Da- vidson Dunton repeatedly de- nied this was the commission a FUTURE BRIG-HT Iobjective. He remarked rue- [fully that some French-Cana- dians accuse the commissmn of the exact opposite —— forcing English on them. The concensus was that it Is unrealistic and impractical to talk of bilingualism and bicul | tu r s m in Newfoundland. Said Best Maritime strawberries a re the best in Canada and berry consumption is higher in the area than anywhere else in Can- nada. growers from the three provinces were told yesterday by speakers at their annual Iduring the Centennial Year. I I Berries In Maritime: In Canada , keLs until I able about you fire knowledge-- heér rediiircmeiils.j The strawberry i n d u s t r y I {needs more large commercial growers. with a large and con-, sistent source of supply. It; needs more production per maundits Anglaisn (damn Eng. which is unmngual and 99_pe,. meeting held in Birch Court at acre. George Wright. assistanti Iishmen) get all the good Jobs In Quebec industries. lcent British in ethnic back- I ground. Accommodation Said Ample, By Erroneous reports that June visitors to Prince Edward Is- land will be lucky to obtain ac- commodations are cousin mo- tel operators to get up in arms. ,Maintalnlng that they have ‘ Plenty of room, some I'- ators yesterday telephoned office and besides expressing annoyance at the rumors they stated that plenty of room is available and they are very anxious to sequin an .increah ed number of guests. At a loss to know when the rumors originated. they inslst- ed oh oh stories on 09¢ encourage would-be vlsllons to cancel their visit to the Island. VACANCIES NOTED A spot check on some of the motels yesterday disclosed that (mile a number of vacancies . several within a stone’s row from the city and sult- Ible for convention delegates. One opuntor stated that sev- eral months ago he had been genurlged by some to considerable expense In re ovating with the definite under- standing thst convention activ- tly in Charlottetown would pro- VIde him with more than am- ltill; opportunity to cover his out- He. stated that since the con- ventions have got underway. his tourist cottages for the prest- 01‘ part of In time have stood "flirty for dun on end. ohm- opcrntor with as mom units stctes that through- Operators ihave averaged about 75 pets Another put his vac-My figure at about so per cent. VOLUME UNCIIANGED Another said that so far liis=1 business has been about on the same average as previous years and that despite the heavy round of conventions he has not received any of the overflow business that was aMicipated.| All of the operators are pret- ty well agreed at with places like Montgomery Hall available to convention groups. competi- tion for the private motel opt/r- not has become exceedingly tough. One operator ts dwelling on the "No Vancancy" rumor be coming spread abroad. As a re- sult many of the prospective Centennial Year visitors are being scared off. I All the operators are unani- mous In their agreement iliat any visitor planning to vacation in Prince Edward Island during June should have no difficulty In obtaining accommodations rough advance reservation or otherwise. INSIDE TODAY Births. deaths .... .. a. l: Classified . . . . . 12, 1: Comics .. . . . . ii Finance. markets C Sport . _ . . . . . . . . . . . . s Editorials . . . , . . d Kings. Giles-s. City .. . I Women's . . 1 Nhumpoflodvmnclu the Experimental farm, Vincent Redmond. Dominion Bureau of Statistics at Truro. NS. said that consumption in the area is the highest and Mar- keting Director Reid Sangster. Charlottetown told them the quality is the best there is in the country. GOOD FUTURE 'Ilhere‘s a good future in Mar- itime strawberries if you work together and present your pro- duct in the bet i 9. man- ner. said Mr. Sangster who ad- yjsed don‘t rush into new mar- ‘ Presbyterians manager P.E.l. Frosted Foods. [Sherwood told the meeting. Unitl costs must be lower. the said. if. processing plants here are to ‘ able to compete on Central Ca- nada m a r k e t s after paying ‘transportation costs to get the’ ; berries «here. 1 Some eight and one-half mil-‘ llion pounds are imported into :Cana a each year and more‘, ‘ than half of it comes from Mex~t ico where export levels are in- creasing, Wright. with the hope that Canadian' berry producers might get in (Continued on Page 5 Col. til I I Pondering Unity TORONTO (CPI—Acting on . recommendation of the com- mittee on inter-church relations. the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Canada decided Monday to continue for another year a study of Presb"- terlanism. The 49 presbyteries will study the significance spiritual unity as contrasted with organic u Dr. G.D. Johnston of Brant- ford. convener of inter-churcn relations. disclosed earlier that 37 of the presbyterles had rs. plied to questions asked by the committee last year. Of the» 36 presbyterles indicated they felt the Presbyterian Church should continue as a separate denomination. The submissions made by presbyterles during the last year will provide part of the future study material. "This will enable us to clarify our own image of ourselves." said Dr. Johnston. The assembly decided to cau- tinue to send observer-consult- ants to the American consulta- tion on church union originally sponso y r. ugene Car son Blake of Philadelphia and Bishop James A. Pike of Cali- totals. The Canadian Presbyterian. Church was represented at toe" consultation at Princeton in‘ April by Rev. Dr. Neil G. Sm‘tli ‘ of Montreal. He told the assem- bly progress was so slow that the consultations are expected y many to continue. past He year 1975. After lengthy discussion on the doctrinal position of tne. church. the assembly Monoay adopted for ‘voluntary use the revised book of common order. A committee under Prof. David . since 1953. The convener and secretary. Rev. W. Scott Duncan of To: onto. threatened to resign if the book was referred agaln to pres- bytcries. as Rev. Donald Mc~ Queen of Toronto proposed. Applause greeted the decision to approve the new book. It con- tains suggested orders of wor- ship. mr'rtage ceremonies. bap- tismal service and other forms for voluntary use in the church. George Femie. of Toronto el- der. was appointed assistant to the national director of Presby lei-tan men. the men‘s organiza- tion of the church. 1 W.Hay of Knox ‘Collegc has,. been working on the l‘eVISln'li History teachers must take the dullness out of Canadian his- tory and lift it from the bot- tom of the school boy‘s popu- larity scale. Dr. Frank Mac- Kinnon said Monday. MacKinnon. principal of Prince of Wales College, speak- ing at the Canadian Association of Professors of Education an- nual meeting here. said Cana- dian history is too dull. With rare exceptions. history textbooks are “dull and uninter- esting." and fail to "satisfy completely any lingering ambi- tion" the school boy might have had toward studying Canadian history. H said better history In- struction is the first step In Canadians understanding their c o u n t r y's confederation and each other. The first problem Is under- standing Canada. "Ask any Ca— nadian child what he knows about h A. Macdonald. Nothing." Yet John A. is as teresting as George Washing.- ton. about whom every Ameri- can school boy is well informed. d. Dr. MacKinnon sai NOT DULL. STATELY try the unusua. things" a h o u t confederation, public life and history. Mac- Donald was not the dull. stately ray, but. years a “real rooting looting drunk. and hc‘wfis proud of it." 10 equipment has so far been used : Perlal Of Typhoid Are Counted ABERDEEN (Reuters) — An- other 10 persons were admlltnd to hospitals in this typhoid- stricken Scottish city Monday but the increase was the low- since the second wave started about two weeks ago. There now are 412 persons in hospitals—$45 confirmed cases and 67 suspected —— compared with 342 confirmed and 60 sua- pected Sunday. The secretary of state for Scotland. Michael Noble. laid the House of Commons in Lon don Monday that outside Aber- deen there were 31 cases~29 in Scotland and two in Engiaud Wales. Another 40 were being ‘b '1'! .-. investigated. History Teaching ' Called Too Dull 5 willing to "try to remedy some inf these when they grow up, is made interesting. firms '1 h "flux" SEVEN CENTS if School children are told some of the weaknesses of confedera- tion. they will be much more Dr. MacKinnon said. 1 In some cases teachers don't lknow enough about Canadian; history. Ask them about Inc ,protective tariff that j I tecting" Ontario and Quebch lwhile the Maritimes and tue‘ ' western provinces pay the price; . i and they "couldn’t explain it." " Hundreds are teaching who: really don't know Canada. Dr.i .M cKinnon s 'd. “N . ' a 81 ObOdyI The Canadian government I has agreed to release James I should be teaching who doesn't understand Ca n ada. There. A. Roberts. 57' deputy trade minister. from his post to en- should be a completely clcur {Sgngaiion of history behimtl able rhim m hemme depmy . . c. ers. I secretary- general of NATO. I . He also warn"! 3231"“ “Tao”? Sept. 1. External Affairs Min- I'm,I but“? ""7" " lemma] istcr Paul Martin said it was lpmnt of view. Students should the first “mp a Canadian learn other viewpoints as well‘ has been appoimm to a sen. as that seen from Quebec oi inr position in NATO. (0;: the Maritime provinces. Wirephoto) IPU ID- i City To Retain I l t l I The radar car now In use by the session. Howatt's Imperial . . I politician the, history books pm. the city police will continue to oil siaiion on Grafton Street : has volurtccred its vacant. space for a lot which could hold about 1he used in an effort to crack‘ down once and for all on speed- , sters insi e the city limits. ‘40 cars. An outlay of about $2.- ‘Councilior W.R. MacNeill in- “100 would grade and pave the‘ "l ted,yesterday at the city. site. council's monthly session. Council accepted this pro- On loan from the RCMP, the; posal. which was made by 1m- Oi . W'quite successfully" in viabbingI The other site in question I (Continued on page 3, col. 7) OTTAWA (CPI—The. federal government was urged Monday 1 to put a full-fledged minister of; housing on the road to sell to‘ the provinces. municipa IlI1‘a‘ and the public the benefits of the National Housing Act audi blic housing. Reid Scott INDP —- Toronto ' Danforth) said in the Commons such a step would help correct the long-neglected truth that; good housing means good citi-i zens. The federal government had‘ too long looked on housing as' an economic pump-primer and‘ a stimulant to employ-l ment without fully recognizing; the needs and benefits of a gcn~ I uine program of national holis- m The full-time housing minis- try was one of several sugges- tions advanced as the Com- mons debated changes In the National Act to provide a new .framework for federal-proving cial co operation on Duhllt'l housing. ‘ _ The Commons later gave the amending bill second reading»- approval in principle started on clause - by - clauscl committee study. I Mr. Scott suggested that housing minister hold a series. of conferences with provincial and municipal governments toI set. specific targets for a My tional housing program. He also urged a long-term: study by a royal commission to I examine and anticipate the1 .housing problems of all ciil-I zens over the next 20 years. I — andi program for senior I housing to replace the "shame- ful and disgusting conditions" _ u ' now live. Bert Le oe (SC Caribno numbers of drivers who werel exceeding city speed limits. The i' is being used in different Inc- ations around the city. said Mr. i Are Scattered committee. His report stated that at theT ALLAHABAD IAPI .Iawa- policemen on duty with another. signed Monday to India‘s holy to join the forcc very soon. and j rivers in mob scene that going through his probationary 0f 1h9_last files for the coun- periml in replacnig a policeg “W's f"‘5t Drlme miniSlE‘l- Councillor MacNeill treatedl ("9d 0" the banks and thou- the parking space question as sands PIUHEEd min the muddy ton Street Memorial Foundation; CPFOMOHY- At least one Woman parking area. which can handle= “’a-‘dl‘ownet'l In the Stampede- parking spaces within a six-I “0'15 0‘ Nehru} 35h“ IV"? block radius of the city ha“. I strewn in rivers and over fields I the land that Nehru had ruled g lots were‘ since India‘s independence grim MET? ch“ .- ra ar car, which is unmarked r I ' Nehru s Ashes Mat-Neill. who heads the police moment there are three special‘ harlal Nehru‘s ashes were con. that there is one new policeman I smothered much of the dignity man who left ihe force. About 500.000 mourners gath- well. saying that with the Graf- A Ganges for a closer View of the 150 cars. llicre are about 3.000 N the same “me. other DOV- and mountains in other parts of NEW PARKING ‘ brought under consideration atl from Britain in 1947. l KILLED WOULD-BE ROBBER Frank Felicetto. tit. Queens New York. Candy store owner is congratulated by friends and neighbors in his neighbor- hood after breaking up a rob- bery attempt a‘ the store by the same pair of men he said robbed him of $350 $32 from the ie;l-ter and 35 cartons of (lien-it”. Out side the stoic h: shot and kill» ed the other man. The storc. owner is out on hall pending I hearing on :- marge of viola- tion of a ivoapmis law. Mr Wtrephoto) months ago. Felicetto. arous- ed by breaking glass as he - slept In rea'. quarters. accost- ed the pair who threatened him with a gun and demanded his nioncv. He shot and critt- rally wounded one man as the pair started to leave with suggested rate be established on govern- ment-guaranteed housing loans and proposed the establishment o a revolving fund to finance ,housing at an interest rate ot‘ .' 112' to two per cent. Maurice. Rinfret (IraMontreai St. Jacques) said new prove Debate On Scheduled OTTAWA (CPl — A charged- up House of " mmons will plunge into the flag issue Thuis- day. The government's plans to bring the flag resolution before the House was announced Mon- day by Justice Minister Fav- reau. The debate will follow. by slightly more than two weeks, the announcement by Prime Minister Pearson that Parlia« ment will be asked to approve the maple-leaf design as Can- ada's national flag. The resolu- tion appearing on the Commons Order paper at that time also said that the Union Jack could continue to be flown as a sym- bol of Canada's Commonwealth membership. Opposition lo a d e r Dielcii- baker raised the question by asking when the “two-flag res-. olution would be introduced. Mr. Favreau said there are “no I plans for introducing debate on any two-flag resolution." But he ‘ aid the resolution dealing with I a distinctive flag for Canada will come up Thursday. Hr Inaugural EPA Flight i. EScheduled Saturday Eastern Provincial are staging an inaugural press flight from Halifax to Gander this Saturday. June lit. EPA begins its new service be. tween Newfoundland. Sydney and Halifax. The press flight is in celebration of this new service. ' Saturday's flight will depart from Halifax at ll.l5 am. ADT. lstop at Sydney and Corner Brook. and arrive at Gander at 4 pm. A tour of the area. re- ception and dinner will be laid on at Gander and the flight will return along the same route to Halifax later in the evening. invited to attend from Prince Edward Island are George Cnandlcr and Edgar Cannon. presidents of the Charlottetown and Summerside Boards of Airway: , Trade Two days later. on Monday. and The Evening Patriot. Rob- Princc Edward Island guests. 'Moncton at IMO Saturday. m 14 PAGES Housing Head Urged On Federal Gov't ; Housing Act i Is Amended 1 sinus of the act vvill help In the preservation of historic build- ings in older centres and make it easier for low-income earn- ers to find housing in renovated buildings. Reynold Rapp (PC —- Hum boldt-Melford-Tisdale) said the Central Mortgage and Housmg Corporation should be permit- ted to give greater conSIdera- tion to housing loan applicants in new. one-industry communi- ‘ ties which are unable to obtain guarantees of their loans from the only big employer in town. John E. Lloyd (Ir—Halifax) said the changes being pro~ posed in the NHA arc of the kind advocatcd by the (fans dian Federation of Mayors and Municipalities. It would help in clearing blighted commercial areas as well as blighted rest dcntial areas. He suggested that a housing ministry as proposed by M1 Scott Would be working With the same sort of problems now are the responsibility Forestry Minister Sauve dealing with the agricultural rehabilitation and development. act. Eric Winkler (PC Grey BruceI urged the government. to consider providing a tax em- emption for the interest pay- ments on housing built under the NHA. Latcr, Mr. Winkler suggested that the NHA be extended so mortgages would be available for older homes. Lloyd Francis I-lr-‘Carletonl said that while existing prowl- as of in Mr. Scott proposed a crasiti sions have helped the establish- citizens' i ment I nder which many of the aged A modern subdivisions. these areas have not attracted an adequate cross-section of the population and certain seiv~ ices. such as schools. have be- come strained. Public housmg b that a fixed interest could play a greater part in balancing the population. The initiative for joint public housing programs must come from the municipalitiaa ‘19 said. and there is a reluctance e part of most municipal authorities to take such Initia- tive. Flag Issue Thursday would announce the exact time Tuesday. Later. Erik Nielsen tP(‘.-—Yu~ konl asked whether the design earlier tabled in the Commons was the one to be adopted by the government's resolution. Mr. Martin said that would be. discussed when the resolution came up for debate. Mr. Diefenbakcr said a story "leaked" by the prime minia- ter‘s office to The. Canadian Press on Saturday said that ne- finements were being made to the flag. He quoted from the story. say- ing among other things that the vertical blue bar at each end of the flag was being widened and the color deepened. Mr. Diefenhakel' said it was “the most dependable informa- tion I can get." The Canadian Press report had been "sanc- tified" by the CBC. he said. Mr. Martin said he had not seen the report but. it was clear. from w at Diefenbaker read. that there was no change in the flag design." respectively. Robert Large CI-‘CY T\ and radio, ‘(rharlottetown Burton Lewis. executive editor. The Guardian cri Schurman (‘.IRW. Summer- side and .l. liltingall. Summer- stde .Iourna . in order to facilitate the trav- to and from Halifax of the .0 1'“‘f"‘\u‘ A a special D(‘-.'i flight will let" ‘at Summersidc and Charlotte- town and proceed to Halifax in inrder to join the special pre'ls ‘ flight. . Moncton. Summerslde a n d I 7 Charlottetown gu turns. 'from Gander will. ' :44 .‘ direct flight land Summon-side,