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An Informal buffet supper was hosted last night by the PET. Association of Agrolog- tsis for the visiting Canadian t‘ouncil on 4-H Clubs at the Legion Home. Seen here Just prior to the slipper are ‘.\'.lt.

AGROLOGISTS ENTEkTAIN

In Second Clan Ottawa. All {It

Authurtud Department.

Hogg of Toronto and Uxbridge. Ontario. president of the Coun cil and Theresa MacLeod of Charlottetown. who is president.

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acted as host for the supper. Two young Highland dancers provided skillful entertainment for the guests. and a dance was held later on for their en- joyment. The convention s scheduled to end at noon to- day. tSee story on page 5.)

Early Action On Pensions ls Forecast By Pearson

()'l"l‘.\\\'\ (‘P l‘t'inic \liii— isicr Pearson said Tuesday tiie government expects a constitu- tional amendment to be passed to time for Parliament to pro- ceed before its summer recess with a Canada Pension Plan which includes survivor bcnc« lits

He said in the Commons all provinces are agreed on a ' stitiittrional amendment to make it possible for the federal plan in include survivor benefits

\gi'eemcnl was being sought on the wording so it could be submitted to the British Parlia- ment which would then have to

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enact the necessary constituw tional amendment.

“in Pearson's statement ibuui timing of the (‘anada Pension Plan legislation fol- lowed a charge by Opposition

Leader Dicfenbakcr the govern- ment is delaying. tising the q u c st to n of a constitutional amendment as an excuse.

\lr Pearson colored the for- mer government under Mr. Dicfenbakcr had iised this ex. cuse not to proceed with a pen- sion plan at all. ASKED TO (‘LARIFY

Thc pension question arose when Mr. Dieferibakcr asked Mr. Pearson to clarify reports Finance Minister Gordon ab-. sent. at the time. had said piib- liciy the pension plan would not

Pilot ls Killed ' At Chafhcim Base

(‘H.\’l‘H\M. NB. tCPiA'l'tn. pilot of an PM Sabre jet was killed on the RCA!" base here Tue s d a y when his plane crashed near the end of a run way. Flying Officer RA. Man- iiion. of East View. Ont.. Was the lone occupant. The aircraft was returning from a training mission.

Banks Appeals

5-Year Sentence

MONTREAL t(‘.Pt Hal (3. banks was sentenced Tuesday to five years in penitentiary for conspiracy to assault a rival urt-

Claude Wagner called among "the most dispicable in

' Criminal Code."

Notice of appeal of the con- viction was lodged immediately and the 36-year-old accused was sent to Montreal‘s Bordeux .iail pending a decision on his motion for bail.

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Premier Walter R, Shaw said I last night the government cx-t Der-is to announce the names oil persons who will serve on a royal commission on the finan (‘ing of higher education in Illf‘: province "in the course of min ‘ ther week," ‘

The matter came tip for con- aideration of yesterday's cabi. not meeting and following t h el meeting Premier Shaw said that "On or two persons have atimed so far to serve on the commission."

Dr. George Dewar. minister 0. education. has also said that the

ommission On E Due To Be Named Shortly

Seafarers“ international Union of Canada Iind.) emotion on hearing the

fence. He was brought into the prisoner's dock wearing hand- cuffs biit they were removed at his request as he stood up to hear .ludge Wagner's sentence.

Defence counsel Joseph Cohen immediately lodged notice of ap :\ motion for leave to appeal must be made before the full bench of the Court of Ap- peals which sits Tuesday May

terms of reference of the com- mission have. been drafted and. are awaiting cabinet approva‘

The cabinet meeting was lengthy one. lasting from 9.30 am. to just after 5.30 pm

"We made progress on a num- I her of matters." the Premier said. "but most of them will be carried over to next week': meeting."

Considerable time was spent. in considering new regulations. drawn up to conlon'n with that Liquor Control Act which w a a!‘ amended at the last session t I the Legislature. The regulations!

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he proceeded \\‘illl at the current parliaiiicittai'y session and that legislation would not be ready on it for another year.

Mr. Pearson said he would

iask Mr. Gordon when the fi.

nance minister returns. The government intended to proceed this sessron but it also wanted to in c luit d e survivor ncfits which required a con- stitutional amendment.

The provinces were agreed on the need and talks were going forward about the form of the. amen me to be submitted to the British Parliament, Mr. Diefenbaker going ahead with te legislation. including benefits. pending enactment the constitutional amendment.

suggested h pension survivor

Mr. Pearson replied surely Mr. Diefenbakcr wouldn't want Parliament to enact something beyond its powers.

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IDairy Farmers Are Informed Outlook Bright

SUMMERSID — Share hold- ers of Amalgamated Dairies Ltd. were told at the com- pany's annual meeting here last night that the outlook for

Canadian dairy prodch was very bright. The. name opinion was given

most aspects of the dairy

industry but the farmers were urged to increase their num- ber of dairy cows as the

amount of milk from herds on PET was shown to be ter- rifically low. financial statement of tJhe .compahty showed it to be in a healthy position with total as- sets of $871,574.88 and total liabilities of 331321670 for a new worth of excess of assets over liabilities of $488,458.18. The company's total income I963 was gtiven as $2.070.-

of income over expenses of $109.- 943.15.

During the course of th

ecting awards were present- ed f in highest cream production by farmers at the. company's Summerside and O‘Leary plants and highest milk production at

award for Su-mmerside

Dirk VavnHei'k and for O'Leary.

Reggie Adams. The highest

milk production award went to Reeves; Bros.

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That was an excuse for de- lay. Dicfcnhaker retorted.

No. replied Mr. Pearson. it was excuse to preserving the constitution The need of an. amendment. was the reason Mr. Diefenbaker's government gave for doing nothing in six years in office.

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ed at the. mectting: i. that. a request be made to the govern- ment for an all-weather high- way from . a y orner to Tignisth: 2. that the provincial

during times str'ictions. a the school buses.

Blood Donations Break Records, Red Cross Told

TORONTO tOP' «Blood serv- ice chairman Vernon C. Hale of Hamilton. Ont.. told the annual meeting of the Canadian Red Cross Society Tuesday Cana- dians broke all blood donation rec ord s contributing 771.203 pints in 1963. up about 27.000 pints on the previous year.

P o v i n c iai representa- tives named to the national ex— ecutive committee include: Ger- ald Bronfnian. Montreal. Que.— Dr. S t e p it e n Weyman. Saint. John. New Brunswick; G. R. Matheson, Halifax. Nova

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Scotia: .i. Gordon Macdonaid. Charlottetown. PET; and Lt,- Col. , ( .aton. St. John's. Newfoundland.

SDU Fiiest

St. Dunstan‘s Universin Press yesterday announced the public- at' of an historical book. “Prince Edward island and Cor.- fcderation." written by Rev. i) 3 Francis Boiger of the history

The SOB-page volume goes on‘ sale today in Charlottetown and Summerside book stores. It may also be, ordered through SOU. was printed for the SDU. Press by Lectlcre Printers Lint l’ ited. Ottawa. .

The book deals with the per iod of island history from 186.1- 1873 and is a comarciiensivc

showed little ‘ ' m. Dies At Age 85

BOVEY TRACEY tReutersi— ‘ ' n a '

Smith, taxi

who rose to become Britain'lt inister of food. Tuesday aged 85.

Smith was one of men to drive a motor taxicab Lo On entering the. House 3 Labor member for London he was known as the “taximen'lj Member of Parliament." ‘

will provide for the. sale, of It- quor by the bottle and by in. glass in licensed establishment:

The cabinet was also expect- ed to consider regulations con- cerning the civil service but. according to Weltfarc and Labor Minister Henry edge, 1 matter will come up at the next cabinet meeting.

Premier Shaw said there was some. discussion on potato pro- ducers' requests for a plebiscite on one-desk selling for t po- tnto industry. "Further discus- sions on this are planned with the potato producers before:

ndon. of Commons in 1923 as .

I plebiscite is called." he said. 7

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First Guests Arrive For Salute lo Hockey

The first distinguished flll0>?.s' for the, Canadian Legion's con-

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in: Jean Beliveaii, Danny Gall»

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tennial ‘Salute. to Hockey'. to m— 'iiimblc. will arrive by plant held here tonight, arrived in fur sliortli after noon today. At city last night. i MacNeii of the Chicago Black

Hawks will arrive by plane lat er this afternoon from his home in Sydney. .\'.S. . onnzs dy. P.E.l.’s only representativ; in the NHL. will represent iht Boston Bruins.

A check with the Legion com} mittee late last night indicateu that ‘alniost all‘ the available supply of 300 tickets for the din-- ner. which will be held at lilt- (‘lovei' Club. have been sold. but there are still a few availabic. anti they will be on sale today

The program for this evening will get underway at 7.30 with a reception at the new. well appointed Legion Home. and the (lililit‘l‘ is expected to start shori- ly after 8 p.m.

Cooper Smeaton. senior tru,‘ tee of the Stanley up and for i mer referee-in-chief of the Na-' tional Hockey League. arrivr‘i. by plane. along with Roger dion. chairman of the national fitncss‘ council. l

Brigadier W. W. tBiili Reid. chairman for the function, 'c ceived word last night that Leti- iiard Patrick tRedi Kelly. LIL». MP for Toronto's Y or K

constituency st 3 i center for the Toronto -f\lapire Leafs. will arrive by plane thi. afternoon to attend the Legion: dinner. ‘

Brig. Reid also confirmed that: the Montreal delegation. inr-ludl

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Trailer Damaged In Rush Of Fires

' Serious damage was ,io a trailer owned by Edward

fire started in furnace and sc 'tt‘t'llf‘t‘l the interior of the

trailer. call

was answered by

o The I o I h the Parkdaie Fire Department other motinn were at at 2.30 pm. and the fire was atives. l2 New Democrats

caused merit

Laing Defends

OTTAWA tCPIA—Prime Minis ter Pearson's minority Liberai government easily surmountcd two confidence tests in the Com- mons Tuesday night.

A Progressive Conservatiie motion of non confident-c. charging the government \vitri failure to establish as co-ordi- nated natiionai water policy, was defeated Lil-78.

. few minutc.s earlier. a (.‘reditiste non confidence mo- tion was snowed under 210-12.

They ’l‘ thc eighth and ninth confidence tests the lib- erals have faced in the current parliamentary session, and 'ne 26th and 27th since they came to power in April. 196’!

in both votes. the parties which challenged the govern- stood alone in defeat.

On the Conservative motion.

Brooks. at 3 Belvcderc Trailer 12 New Democrats. 12 Creditis- _'r:yvm'z t'imps' Court Monday afternoon when tes and seven Social Credit MP: 8 .

sided with lift Liberals against. the 78 Conservatives.

Joining the. 110 L i b e r a is against 12 Credifiistes on the Conserv-

and

extinguished rapidly. An unde- seven Social Credit MPs.

. termined amount of damage S'andings in the 265.5%, (."m_

was done to the trailer which mm “9- Liberals we Consent.

I s n “'35 “lifted to b“ ln‘SUI‘M- atives . . New Democrats 17.

‘ ' Mit Emma-s lives at 303 Creditistes 13. Social Credit 9.

Queen Elizabeth Drive. The vacant 2. i

Halal-FAX tCP‘ The main were being rushed into control trailer was not occupied at the forest fire scene in Nova Sco- it time of the fire and was being tia appeared to have shifted Deputy Minister G. W, l. prnparpd {or rental next month,

eastward Tuesday from Halifax Creighton of the lands and for- County to Guysborough Coniin indications b e c a m e stronger than the forests might be closed if the province gets no rainfall to travel. by that tim ."

“may be closed by the weekend 4.30 pm

OTTAWA t(.“Pw A potentially serious flood threat exists in

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tramm-y, Thai-e was no dam. cafed in the Commons Tues-‘3 day

The worst of the fires ap- KEPT (WEN BY SNOW ago, ~~ peared in the bow Har- said. " is only snow in At 2_:ht p.m. _\'9.~‘ilPl‘dRy a grass He defended the minority Lib- PM 'Flft‘a- almttt 2‘ "Hips “.95‘ the thickly wooded sections that. tire was squelched by fihe de- eral governmenth water re- tOf Cans“ A “'mer ‘ bombing has kept "19 {0"95‘5 0P9" “"5 moment which anst a call sources policy shortly before

plane was sent to the scene. However. the threat to Hali- . EX C(“émz “:5 "hOtff’Wl‘i While A Newfoundland (‘anso water 22):",1 05' n t 6’ rtts ircs In sev- bomber. ca able of dum mi 800 _ ,, _

“.81 areas “me brought under “Hons Mp‘vaier .‘ fin A hvdio pole was also damag- t'tmlff’lv H'Wlllt’l' hl‘fikf‘ til” in fire. worked most of Tuesday bushland between Spryficld and on {ii-(ts in the “la\‘(\|'lpy area urcell's Cove on the edge of outside Halifax

the City‘ ‘ Later it was on way A forestry spokesman said New Harbor. to the “biggest . , this fire, at Colpitt Lake. was firc today so far." the spokes- “NJ” ""‘t‘m'a' """h't‘ “Wis “crawling badly." Firefighters man said. ' 5"“ "anti?" “was

““—'"""—' —""—"s“ “'—’M \ fire in the Beaver-bank area "‘th'h 0" *Dfi‘i‘k COU‘ld cause 8 Halifax County. was brought St‘rlm's “W‘-

und control Tuesday. F‘ire patrols were

cs! fires.

its . in: "controlled burning" of

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ed.

Last PH‘ITIILI the two mat: -‘ Conservative mot on iiies of fllr‘ Parkdale Fire De. Conservatives said they would branch would conduct a town! to parrmcnt were in the village (10- not vote for the Creditiste mtr

"mg i" “If face "fmf‘unllng if)" to the tMacKay Drive area where the government faced Conserv- 5 elle A ndrieux. c youngsters had thrown a ative and Creditiste non-conri ‘Lonena G-i'llis. Marjorie Stew- iiito a field of dry grass. ‘ deuce tests. I ‘

During the debate. the other opposition parties criticized the . and the

tion. The Conservative motion con—

\VPy‘p a demoed the government for not3 Also

establishing a co-ordinated na-

f Water Policy

noring an "imminent national crisis in water resources man. agemeni . evidenced by tim critical low water levels of the

Great Lakes. The ('rediiisre motion called for concrete actions to imple mom the Agricultural Rebabili tation and Development Act.

The resources minister said he had been accused of being flippant when he suggested “pray for rain" when asked re- cently in the Commons about receding water levels in the Great Lakes.

"I think a praycr might lllli help." he said Tuesday.

“We have a most abnormat )illlalltin in British Columbia. 1 don't want to be. an alarmist. but in the next four weeks the

t province. will go through very

Retarded Child ren’s Group Meets

SIJMMFZRSlDF. —, Sengcanlt

slack Kingston. RCAF‘ Sumner-

side. was elected president. at ch of

the Prince County btran ihc Retarded Children's A9- SO('l;.ilOI‘\. succeeding Reg Mac.»

A grass fire was extinguished British Columbia at the same . Room at the _ braincrh‘s amttital 95's dPPartment said the woods by the parikdate Department at time as water levels are. drop- merting last night.

Monday at. tthe field pins in the Great Lakes. . I

behind the Matthew we”; pickle sources Minister Laing indi-i vice prieisnident,

Other officers named wemr' M. Amos

Hubiey secretary, Misc Mar! lgal‘el Wedge; treasurer} Rob-

‘ ert White.

Directors named Wei-e. Reg MacKenna. Neva Carney. Wary Arsenauilt. .art. Theresa Perry and Mrs. Robert Mollison.

Including in the business was the announcement that the

twide Flower of h campaign on May llrh with donations ate: in: to the provincial fund.

heard were reports: by treasurer and

Itbc secretary —

: tional water policy and for ig- ‘ president.

I . " 9F 0 o Ithe province" checking out re- * ports a sightings “There I e I s a S were a f small . kc 'e- ‘ '

ported.” the forestry spokes-

. man said.

i THREE l‘NIWlR CONTROL These included three fires in lthc Port 'tledway area of the

;proviticc's south shore. Volun- , “m , examination of the role played leer firefighters. forest rangers (H '{92‘ 'hg'll‘ N \' infill"; by P El in formation of and a water bombing plane had Donal .‘m' ""‘ n a ‘CO la ' man mm." 1WD sai Tuesday he doubts the

' Q' - * t .s w . . Confedrration. it begins “HIT, hec iitidri Uni'ed Slams WI" “and m the

fit attitude of the Island to the hours. _ ‘ \‘lgi'itimc union movement. and Th“ “WHO-"man S a l fl the ."f c_m.mda .“Slablfhmg‘ a deal; pxlonsh'ph' with tim im. Canso aircraft came front the 12"“'l“ F‘flilng I‘m" anng ('3' portancc of the Charlottetown N(“Vitiundland government on a "ad'a'l ‘1“_"‘°t:‘.g' "I. d with a conference as a prerequisite for "lf‘lld‘t‘ast‘" basis. and it was R an d bags-:0 l . 0‘-

anl definite how long it would cl‘a'o“ M0" 33 ~‘ ~ "3 m [

Confederation. . _ I , . - H -' ~ .

After studving the island‘s at- romam "13min “013‘ » ‘1':de Pilllliihlils‘ {ngnislliiinisfigr mum. m 1h}. up“. man 0 (my Meanwhile. in New Brunswick Pearmn‘ had rewmed t‘o “nun- fedcratioit advanced at the sub i 3 mm“ hm “mm "Rd been htni ‘di )lomat'v': in weld": to scrucnt Quebec conference. the “mm: {M [hypo days no” ‘- ~ I ‘ ~‘l l' " t

l . _ - ,- . . Welsford. 2i miles front Saint {19(1le a '2’"”9 'm” “' mu author treats in detail the tea. under mm ,mm-naimnai agreement [or

- John was hl‘flll"lil . . - i the . m . 233:"?9’“ the '51“dede trol Tuesday. It burned over a 5"?“ t‘ "‘m9

‘ - ’ govern iieiit's a ct i on tCoiititiued on page 5. col. 2' fliifcnflip'cm. . . W—v (.031: not be Sntormmed as a move by "hot heads. ' the Nova Scotia senator said. It would be followed by responsible action in attempting to persuade for- eign countries that fish off Ca- nadian coasts to observe the 12- mile limit.

. t r Smith was speaking during second-reading debate on a government bill to ban for... eign fishermen from Canada‘sl ric off ' and to.

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fisheries 0 xi e n d (‘anadian territorial waters farther out o sea.

He s 'd be doubts the United; States will refuse to enter into an agreement with Canada. es- pecially when it no e based on conservation of fish re~ sources.

MORF. FISH EATEN

The consumption of fish in the US was rising rapidly ' that country had to look to oth r nations for fish supplies. It would be glad to get more fish from (‘anada under an lagreement which would help , assure that such supplies would ‘ be available.

Senator Smith also said there 'has been ti sharp rise in the

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