I-‘IRE WHICH broke out in 3 west-bound combination ex- -ess-mail car travellingfrom Charlottetown to Tignish Monday night completely flut- led the car. destroying a large amount of parcel post mail bound for Tlgnish, O’iLcary and Atberton. Seen is the .n- teirior of the ca-r following the fire yesterday. Mail Car Burns ISLAND NEWS PAGEL Western And Central Districts The Guardian. Charlottetown. Wed. Dec. 18, 1963. 3 [ssay Prize Winners Are NamedBy legion Lester MacRae of the Eldonv .Branch, Royal Canadian Le- Hgion, and provincial poppy cam- paign chairman, last night an- nounced the winners of the Le- gion essay contest on the sub- ject “The Importance of Obser- ving Remembrance Day." The winners each receive a monetary prize and Mr. Mac- Rae said that arrangements are being made for the prizes to be presented before the schoots l close for the Christmas holiday. The six prize-winning essays will now be forwarded to Dom- inion Command headquarters where they will be judged in the national com t’ ' lCREID|TlSTE ition. The provincial winners are as follows: Grade one to five — Heather Martin, grade four, St. J e a n j Element School. Charlotte-ft town: and Mary Beth Horgan. ‘. grade four, St. Joseph's Con-l vent, Charlottetown, tied and’ each will receive Grades six to eight Nora , Cameron, grade eight. St. Ma-, ry‘s Academy, Summerslde. $30. Grades nine and 10. Mary Lou ; MaeLeod, grade nine Sherwood: High School, 330. 3 Grades 11 and 12. Carmella Poirier. grade‘ 11, Evangeline Regional High school. Abram's' village; Noetla Reid, grade 12, Evangeline RHS, tied with each receiving $2). , (Oonfiimsed from page 1) bec member's views were those of the Liberal party. Mr. Pearson, whose name was on the ‘order paper sponsoring third reading, was in the Home at the time but did I not speak during Tuesday"s da-- bate. Gerard Girouard (SC —- La- White C "Outlook For P.E.|. % . 4,, l'lI‘|S‘l'lTIa$. l I I S a. y -1» c ...~ , f_ In .. Objections Insufficient C.R. McQuaid, chairman provincial labor board, said yesterday that Oh» jections raised by Publishing Co., l.td., . side. have been ruled “instilli- cient." The next stop is for a vote to. be taken among qualified em-' Club, held at the Charlottetown chase the property)_ I ployecs at the plant on the pro- Hotel, drew 12 tables. Next sea-I According to figures released ,the ground, with in o s t of it fal- ‘ D0581 '0 Organize. ' of relations the Journal Summer- Tlio elderly residents of the Sacred Heart Home in (‘har- lottetown were entertained ' woii= CU‘BS3.ENTER1'AlN last night by a youthful group. the Basilica Wolf Cub Pack. The Cubs sang Christmas ca- Bridge Play Has 12 Tables l This week's session of thc Charlottetown Duplicate Bridge l sion will be Monday night, Dec.‘ felt that $50,000 was too much, but he did not want to “close the door" on an opportunity to ob- ' tain for the city needed proper- might not be available uture. i ty that in the f , tThe owners have said that 1 other concerns also wish to pur- Coun. Hyndman said he could not "see anyone buying prop- min and other songs especial- ly requested for the occasion. Smart wives will read this ad ii belle) said there shouldn't be by ii‘ i th l ht i‘ th 24th.l bickering over the centennial. mo“ mg on 8 ng 0 e Warren Burns. doml , _ v which could be expropriat- weatlher observer at the 1'«;x.iEleven inches Of SHOW made ' t was also reported that con-' 30, at 8 pm. ‘ 911 e Mrs. L.I. Duffy and Mrs. J.’ ed by the city at any time.‘ sideration to appealing t Fire of unknown origin com- plctely gutted a combination express-mail car travelling from Charlottetown to Tignish Miiiiday. The fire, which is reported to have started in or near a wall in the centre of the car, destroy- ed mostly all parcels for Tig- nish and approximately one- third of O’Leary-bound parcel and other members of the train ci-cw. Also saved were some ten crates of live chickens but a shipment of bread was is total The fire was first noticed at with making its regular stop at Wei- lington station. ALL EXPRESS LOST At Wellington am. The Wellington fire depart- ment was immediately called and later firemen from RCAF Station Summerslde arrived at the scene to give assistance but despite all efforts the car was gutted. EXPLOSIONS “We had just finished off the last crate of chic Mr. Larter recalled. “when there was an explosion that fill- ed the car with flames. Rex Mc- Carville, one of the trainmen. had just jumped out of the taking kens", He said he noises which sounded like shells going off and hitting the ceiling. Asked what he thought had caused the explosion he said it might have been cans of paint. After the firemen left Monday night a guard remained at the car and at approximately I a.m. the rubbish remaining in the car began to smoulder and around 7 a.m The Wellington department had to be called car ’ and I got out as fast as I could." heard popping _ JAMES TYIZCLEAN Kensington Man noted that the majority of past lfall on Prince Edward Island is- Canada should celebrate its - ~ - ich - i d 1 1952 imam‘: 1' ' 1, ‘ - - 1-‘-- k M -M11 pad in L1,.‘ . _ penrnental Farm. Prince Ed. : [:15 T1135‘ fly n 8 Ver y - TU 111;! ls (“HIE L0illCl7l 1 idll ‘ a( ‘I an . . 8 H01‘ . I Nicholson fe 1 t SUMMERSIDE BUREAU engineer notified to stop an fvggigerwry 3“ Sh OW l-h9 ward Islanders will once agam ,white Christmas. gplated by Alan K. bCalCS’(.‘tll.lIl-‘ Sfllllll Slfle Willi 98 points. l0ll0\V-_ thmflgnwas no need to purchase OF THE GUARDIA - - enjoy a white Christmas‘ he aiso ; The average December snow,‘ S(‘l for the Summerslde firm. fed lly .\ll‘S. F.W.L. Prowse and_ more property as the City had ,.\iiss Nicholson with 93‘é. Not‘ just acquired the adjacent Bell ‘ man MacLcod and Allan I-‘oiv - d H roperties. He l syihe lopped the nonhsoumi said thiiiiniefstsigl civic government lpairs with 81, followed by Mrs: S in need of better quarters, lR°b°rt .Hm°5. and Mlss .Maryl the present building could be- ‘D"H~V’ “ed Wm‘ W5-. Be“-lammi greatly improved in view of thel ‘ Rogers and Mrs’ wllham T’ R0 new construction methods. ‘ 39”‘ hm“ ‘mh 79%’ . 3 He also felt that the present‘ Following are the top five . v. . ‘city hall would be of historic i-teams on each side, Vllill points value some day and any Christmasses have been white. '23 i“°h95- “Ed “"195? 3 l°i_ °‘‘ 1,] 1950' it was raining on the ;snow falls in the little time 24th, but there were snow flur- lien» lhls m°"th 15 3°l"g t° '3“ ries in the afternoon of the lb°l°‘W averagei 2 jSl1aw To Hold’ I A llevee At Hotel! Five inches lay on the ground in 1951, but Christmas, 1952, was a day of intermittent drizzle and no snow. The 25th in 1953 , totals: . - - started off right with snow flur- , .‘ EAST‘-W1’-lS’l‘ 1 gl?i“dgma fiewdeififiiige “were ‘ ries at 7:30 a.m. but by 5 p.m. . fill. MacLeod-Forsythe 31 t ,,".d. I ,, Th - {On to t it was raining. There was no Rarely held outside the Pro-: 1 2' Du”.v_HineS 79 - rt 1Cu0llS- 9 1110' snow on the ground in 1954, b utl vincial Building, Premier Wal- 5 R.,gérS_R,,ge1.5 79i:_, ‘elect the W°Pe"ty _P‘“'°ha5° 5"°W “““‘l°5 were i'e°°1“l9d- , ter R. Shaw and Mrs. Shaw arel - ll 4, 'I'u|lc-Atkins 3 was then passed unammousm -9 weatilzis iiill‘liai6i(l::lleEh:)ifstin-lliagl """‘”'““3 '° mid me” '”"”“°"'l llamblywessey 6“ I FISHERMEN IOST white stluff, an 1956 didn't do,“ New Y°31"5 ‘W99 at the‘ ti}, ])uffy.:\i1a(-Mi]|,-an 93 l . too badly with four inches. ;‘ Charlottetown Hotel. l ‘ 2, p,({w5e_N;ch0iS(,n 931,5} AC;-PE ;\OW?.tS011tflilhAfl‘lCl I In December 1957, only s ix: - ~ ‘, 3_ 1: _c,- i t. l — Ven y- W0 S efmell = inches of snow fell all month.l alilhfiolavfiergzgefigngfl 4_ D:§3ri:,9£;_Blu£;,‘:2in 32i/ziwere reported Tuesday to have and the 25“, arrived with met recewed again “"5 year’ an m_ : iyir” 1‘§_ (;_ 59,," 78I/2,dl'()\}\‘]1€d after their boat cap. ground completely . . sized and sank when hit by two l°Va“°" start by Pr°.m'°rl lbuge waves off the coast 300 cD}ii;,s13§8.siIilri§dvev r:'r':S."“"V ‘°“°“’“" "is ‘‘”‘'"L' °" l?ENG-|NE¢ER ‘miles north of Cape T0\l/Il. a really White Christmas, butl me‘ Three survivors who swam ashore in rough seas said. the ;tragedy occurred Sunday night. 1959 recorded 8 m 9 1- e 0 n 9 .- One reason for the change _in _ giocalion is that the Provincial The best Christmas for snow‘ Building is Undergoing €Xi6D"i I-I. I: c =" CYRIL J" BRYNE ,struction of a new City Halli , in many years, occurred in 1960 sive renovations. not expected with 231/: inches of the white to be completed in time. and an- Awarded MSc. again to douse the flames. sometime “within the next de- It was believed that all ex- ress shipments in the car were ompletely destroyed. The train was held up five ours by the blaze. Due to ar- rive in,Tignish at midnight it ' 't get there until 5 o'clock in the morning. The mail car with the fire aboard was shunted on to a siding at Wellington. Mr. Larter, a temporary malt clerk who has been doing this run during the Christmas rush for some 16 years, said yester- day, “we had finished unloading E. :3 tMacEachcrnl smell smoke‘. The two men working the can liiiniediately shut the doors to shut off all drafts, located the source of the smoke and had the '< yelled It was reported that most of the damage to the car and its contents was caused by the ori- ginal fire but considerable wa- tcr damage occurred in the orning. INVESTIGATING At the scene yesteiiday after- noon were E.G. Taylor. CNR Sllipeflilieflflent at Charlotte- town. and Marcel Gatien of Saint John, postal department director of transportation for the Saint John area which also includes RE]. The RCMP detachment from 3 Summerslde was also called in i an apparent effort to determine ‘the cause of the fire. It was thought the blaze might have been started by a coal stove in the car. Late yesterday afternoon the BRIEFS HOME FROM BOSTON J.A. Noonan has returned to his home ‘ Alberton after Boston. IN HOSPITAL Elmer Bernard. Keusington. is a patient in the Prince County Hospital, Summerslde. HAD SURGERY Mrs. Ivan Gill, Kensington who is a patient in the Prince County Hospital, Summerslde. underwent surgery on Thurs- WAS PATIENT James MacLean. accompan- led by his mother, Mrs. W.S. ilacLean has returned to his home at Kensington after being 8 patient in the Montreal hospi- tal for some time. SPENT WEEKEND Miss Patricia Dunphy. RN. and Mary Dunphy. student- nurse at the Charlottetown Hoa- llital spent the weekend at the home of their parents. Mr. and lvlrs. James Diinphy, Kenning- on. JONES FUNERAL - The in- neral for Mrs. Owen Jones was vice at Compton F u n e r at Home conducted Rev. by C. . Webber. then to the United Church. Elmsdale. where ser- 9° vice was conducted by Rev. Da- vid Hamilton. Hymns were "The Lord's My shepherd", an d "Abide With Me". Flower bear- Brannsn. Dave Stewart. interment. was in tin I use WESlERN:.....: in spending the past 10 days in w s- carryover of durum wheat at titted car was hauled to Chai- lottetown where. it was report- ed. hot the CNR and postal nu thorities will conduct an inves to determine the a ; proximate loss from the fire. KENSINGTON —- A Master of Science degree in chemistry was recently awarded to a Ken- sington student. James William MacLean. by Dalhousie Univer— sity, Halifax, NS. was awarded a $2,000 sch-, olarship for postgraduate work; in chemistry and has recently‘ accepted a position with a Shell Oil Co. of Canada Ltd., in Montreal. James graduated from Ken- sington High School and won a scholarship to Mount Allison University. He graduated two years ago and then attended Dalhousie. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. W.S. MacLean. Kensington, and grandson of William Mne- Lean. Charlottetown. tFARM N-ET tcontiinued irom page ll Agriculture. the country's chief group, called for more federal-provincial co - operation in legislation than now exists. The National Farmers Union. representing growers in est and Ontario. unged na- tionalization of the CPR. plus acceptance of the Canada Pen- sion Plan. a national lpedical care program and a way to aid ‘the farm industry whose prod- uct prices remain stable while costs rise. Roy Atkinson, Saskatchewan Farm Union head. said national production targets should be worked out and certain amounts assrgncd to developing needy nations. Agriculture Minister I. C. Nollett of Saskatchewan said nature was good to his province this year with reco wheat yields. But farming wasn't out of the woods yet by is long shot. MANPOWER DWINDLING Farm manpower was still dwindling and boom-and-bust cycles still plagued livestock prices. Price stability was still a prime need as it was when he had attended his first fed- eal; - provincial conference in 1 . The White Paper forecast heavier cattle and pu market- ings in 1904 and weaken prices but total income should be higher. it said. Butter production about 350.000.M0 pounds and should decline to 340.000.000 unds next year—-just about the consumption level and cod- ing buildup of the 000. pound surplus. Egg and poultry output should slscken early in 1964 with higher prices. Even with high exports. he for 1963 5. 2 nex‘: July 81 will be a record Apple exports to the United States are e ctad to be higher after a max‘ crop than and Crapaud Main Fined $100 SUMMERSIDE — Harry Ro- land Ferguson, Crapaud, was fined $100 and costs in Prince County magist.rate‘s court ves- terday for a second offense of driving a vehicle while his li- cense liad been suspended. Sen- tence was passed by Magistrate Chester MacDonald. Peter Paul Gaudet, Kensing- ton, was fined S75 and costs on a charge of impaired driving. He had entered a plea of guilty. a record 22.000.000-bushel yieldl here. . The CFA brief said economic anning has become more re- a e a function of government and called for ca- ordinated and efficient federal- provincial planning in various farm fields. The CFA and the National Farmers Union each iessed for federal back-up protection for provinces facing serious crop-insurance losses. and also for federal action to permit national producer marketing boards. Each called for more study and flexibility in farm credit facilities. WIN $100 worth of MERCHANDISE for Christmas Each purchase entitles you‘ to enter yaw name for the big draw on think, worth of quality merchandise can -. Christmas . . rnercha ndlso must Great George st. Dial 4401 be yours for stuff. and to make it better, it snowed all that day. other is that the couple h ave taken up winter residence at n 1961, nine inches cuvenedlthe hotel- ISDU Graduate iWins IODE I LT.-GOV. SALARY BOOST ’ OTTAWA (CP)4alary in- creases for lieutenant-gover- nors, were stoutly defended Tuesday night by Senator .lcan-Francois Pouliot tL—- Quebec). He told the Senate that he wcll remembers going to Charlottetown at one time to see the lieutenant-governor. He eventually found him, with pail in hand, washing his own c “I was upset to think of that poor lieutenant-governor in his overalls washing his car." FULL OF COMPASSION “I was full of compassion for him, and I told him that if there was one man 1 would defend and boost it would be the lieutenant-govemor of the Garden of the Gulf." Senator Poullof got his chance Tuesday night when a bill came up that would dou- ble the salaries of Lieutenant- govemors. With a healthy boost from him, the bill ‘went through third and final reading. Pre- viously passed by the Com- mons, it now awaits royal assent. » ward Island would receive $16,000 Quebec and Ontario ,. lieutenant - governors would The Quebec senator didn't say what lieutenant-governor was in office when he went to Charlottetown. He said it was “one or two years after, or before," the estimates were passed for the last increase. The last increase was in 1911. ‘NOTHING DISHONE-ST‘ Senator Pouliot said there was nothing dishonest about anyone — even a lieuten- ant - governor —- washing his own car. “But one is not accustomed to seeing other lieutenant - governors doing . .. it. . . . “I might say he was far from wearing his decorations. . . . I protest against such a thing." my opinion all the representatives of jesty the Queen treated in the same manner with the same salary. Under the bill, the lieuten- ant-governor of Prince receive $20,000, and in other provinces the salary would rise to $18,000. ~\‘. “=5 ciiiiismiis For the ultimate Canadian food to floaeeast. l Come to the LOTUS LOTUS CAFE *1 ° lfigti . i\, \- ’--:‘x—‘, "Y . . ts 4‘... )‘ ."~= -23): as -. °- 1 . l ' I l suorrimn \ ' T5}: iih ’. ‘.1 in Chinese and take out. 1 Charlottetown DIAL 894-3910 e . By ne ‘teaching English at Mount lSENA.TOR POULIOT BACKS 5¢h°'°rs|iii= Word has been received from l_ODE lieadquarteis by the pro- \'ll'lClal \\'3I' TT1E‘lTl0l'lHl (‘0fI\'(‘ll6i‘. ’ Mrs. CD. .. Siinimersirie that Cyril Joscpli Byriie li a 5 been awarded a First War Me- morial Post-Graduate Scholar- ship for the college year 1964- 65. valued at $2.(l0tl, Mr. Byrnc. who was born in Corner Brook. 1\‘fld.. reccivcri his BA at St. l)unstaii's Uiiivcr- sity. I*‘ollowing this he attended University College in Dublin. Eire. where he obtaiiied his MA degree. It is Ml‘. Byrne's inten- tion to follow up his studies by working toward his PhD degree at Oxford University. where he will study Medieval English. Mr. is St. Vincent College in Halifax. / r,.,, ,. y’, I’ ’ _Q._ _ \ icade," became the centre of a heated discussion. it was decided that the prop- crl_\'. at $50,000. should be re- jectcd, but not before each coun- cillor and the mayor had his : sa Coiiiicilltir H. E. liyndman, cliairmaii of the finance com- . Illlll(‘(‘, "far in excess" t_v‘s \'£llllf‘. If the city wanted the [ll‘tl|)(‘l'l_\’ at a later date the y “coiiltl lion." he said. City llct-orcicr l\'..\‘I. Martin cxpl.'iiiic.d that land could be ex- pl'tipl'iai0(l only if it were for thc ‘ piiriioso of providing parking fzicilllics. ciiiiiit-illiir .I.l<‘.. .\I‘Sellilllll also D.»-.-:.v.-I-C.k.~.n(tEw.n . 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