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WAITING FOR last night’s mccllng of the Basilica Lay- men‘s Association to get un- derway In Notre Dame audi- torium. some of the members go over part of the plans for the new Parish Centre with

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{The Guardian. Charlottetown, Tues. Feb. 19. 1963. 5'

the rector. Shown left to ight are president. Arthur 1“. Mc- Innis: secretary. J o s e p h Cheverie: the rector. Rt. Rev. Patrick McMahon. and mem- ber of the building committee. T. W' ' ampbell.

Progressing

On Basilica Parish Centre

Reporting on the progress of the new Basilica Parish Centre, pow under construction on Rich- mond Street. M.F. Hagan. chair- man of the building committee. last night told the Basilica Lay- mcn‘s Association. that e l.ulding will be completed by the scheduled date. June 30.

Mr. Hagan indicated that in- stallation of the 14 automatic bowling alleys and related caf- eteria facilities in the $800. structure is to get underway immediately.

In addition the new building Will contain a large completely equipped gymnasium. along nuh space for boy scout. girl guide and other youth activi- ties. There will also be facili- ties for the Knights of Colum- bus. ("redit Union, and other organizations.

Breaks Reported Over Weekend

Three breaks were reported to city police this weekend.

The Keefe Hygienic Service store was broken into Saturday night, but nothing was taken. Entry was gained through the front door.

Spence and MacLeod was bro- ken uito through a back window. Nothing was reported stolen.

Police checked a break at the bus stop where thieves gained entry through a back window and broke into the pop machine there.

LOCAL BRIEFS

ILL IN HOSPITAL Lloyd Moreside is ill in the Charlottetown Hospital.

TO ONTARIO. llrs. Alfred MacKay of New

London left yesterday for On- tario where she will be the guest of Rev. and Mrs. John Ali-Murray and family of Mil-

\'erton. Ont.

IS PATIENT Mrs. Joseph Corrigan, Ed- ward Street. is a patient in the Charlottetown Hospital.

MacMILLAN FUNERAL The funeral for Edmund Rodd MacMillan was held Saturday. Feb. 16. from the MacLean Funeral Home to the West Cove- head United Church where aer- Vice was conducted by Rev. GAD. Elliott and ev. Pallbearers were Clif- ford Chappel, Earl Ling. Lorne MacMillan. George Reilly, Clayton Matthews and Leilh Vessey. FloWer bearers were Lowell Younker, Harold Mac- Donald. Edison MacDonald. Wil- Iram MacDonald. Interment was in the church cemetery.

BRAZEL FUNERAL — The funeral for Mrs. Edwin Brawl Wk place Monday morning “0m the Hennessey F‘imeral Home to St. Patrick's Church.

Fort Augustus. where Requiem High . '

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M In tho qmry Pallbearers were Joseph Lund. Edward Lund_ [m an”). I{Wald MacEachem. J.B. Mac- Lachern and Joseph Gallant. Interment took place it tho church cemmm‘

CORMIER FUNERAL -— The funeral for Mrs. Edward Cor- mier took place Monday morn-

ing from the Hennassey Funer- all Home to St Dunstan's Basil- ru. where Requiem High

Mass wrs celebrated by Rev- Hammill. who also con- ducted the service at the grave- Pallbearers were William Mac- Donald Francis MacDoneld. James Duffy. Clarence Peters. Benjamin Peters. and Stanl

Gallant. Interment took place ct: Inn Catholic come

000’ Rt. Rev. Patrick McMahon, in

The building will provide fac- ilities for almost every type of indoor relaxation with space for .offices. lounges. library. assem- Ibly and banquet halls. along with catering facilities for any type of large gathering.

Following Mr. Ha an port. Eugene Cullen. presented the meeting with a detailed re. port covering the financing of rthe new building.

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his address. gave the associa- tion his report on the financial affairs of the parish over the past year.

He also expressed pleasure on the efforts of the building com- mittee. which have extended over the past several years. and which were responsible for the final undertaking to build the new parish centre.

President Arthur F. Mclnnis. reported on the activities of the recently formed Diocesan Fed- eration of Catholic Men. t e meetings of which he attended.

The meeting also made the preliminary plans for the as- sociation's commuion breakfast. which is slated to be

Cancer Soc. 94 Research Projects

By STAN BOWLES Guardian-Patriot Staft’ Writer r “ nder the sponsorship of E

the Canadian Socuety.j 94 cancer research projects are! now in progress in 20 cancer; institutes from coast to coast,"‘ Geonge Pifher, Toronto, secret-1 ary-treasurer of the national: organization, said no Charlotte- town last night.

These projects have been un- err-taken by a group of leading scientists. who make up the re search advisory group, whose job it is to investigate all ap- plications for research. before they are given the go'aihcad by. the Cancer Society.

Mr. Pifher was in the city in connection with the April cam- paign for funds. which will be conducted across Canada.

This year the objective has been boosted by some 20 cent, to $3,682,000. of which P.E.I's quota has been set at 312.000. .

“The reason for the boost in: the national objective.“ Mr.‘ Pifher said. “is that the cost; of research has risen by some‘ 26 per cent In the last year."

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held sometime during Lent.

House Ransacked

Out of this objective, $1.900.-. 000 is earmarked for research?

on other phases of the society's . have little difficulty in

work. This covers_ cancer

Sponsors

'5 was readily available for the willingness 'to pay until threat- ’ ened.

TOWN TOO EASY

' man of the finance committee.

only the airforce. its the whole town in general. I hope they un- Jr. belief that

out the free world are Jorrnedl together in the cheer the foundation of Rotary Chicago on Feb. 23. 1905 and; as we celebrate here today. it.

lUnited Fund Director Issues Warning Here i

“This week Rotarians through- Past President John Simmonds!

{Bid in introducing the sub

eroay. Mr. Simmonds described the

Central Queen

5 Home, School

Holds Discussion, Sees Films

HUNTER RIVER highlight of t h e February meeting of Central Q u e e n s Home and School Association

The

was the discussion result i n g various new ways being tried to‘ from-questions arising from a i put children more at ease with‘ question box. The meeting was numbers, and how teachers to—r

held In the school and the presi- Reagh Bagnall presided. Twenty- seven members an. swered the roll call. Twenty- six new

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card tables

the semi-monthly card a n d crokinole parties. Song books were also purchased for use '

the music sessions. Membership fee of $5 was paid to the Dance 'Festival. A committee was ap-

vance of Ject at the luncheon meeting of I pointed to purchase crokinole in Rotary in the Charlottetown ycs- ‘ boards.

everal members expressed.

S lthe desire to attend the annual

is indeed a pleasure to have! growth of Rotary from infancy 1 meeting and dinner of the Can-

with us our two honorary mem-é hers Lieut-Governor F. Waiter!

‘ Hyndman and Walter S. Grant", I

payment of the debt but not the

Councillor Leo Wood. chair- said tax collections are “coming along well" and he

“stroneg endorses collections be carried out in this way until all are collected." He sai in other years the council “was too easy" with respect to tax c o l-

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Councillor Wood said “its not

derstand that."

Deputy Mayor George Key. . said some people are of the airforce personnel

clinical fellowships. Mr. Pif

many of the reasons for

he: pointed out that the in.

! education, welfare services and

creased costs of research

due to research teams becom~ ing more deeply involved In their projects. plus ad supplies and equipment

ing mone expenswe.

He noted that some 15 years ago much of the research in the field of cancer was carried on 9 using very little more than an ordinary microscope and a

“May... he said “a wider variety of in- tricate equipment is necessary, most of which is electronically operated. Also the people work- ‘ inrg Will] this equipment need to

other

modest items.

be more highly trained."

Mr.

‘ already

Pifherr was here as part of his Maritime tour and has a swin through Manitoba and Saskat-

completed

chewan. His next tour wifll

through Alberta Columbia.

By

the time April

ploter covered

and British followed by a in“ through Ontario and Quebec. rolls around he hopes to have coma.

Canada from‘. coast to coast. “So far." he said. ‘ "indications are that the var- irn-d the remainder will be spent ' ions branches of the society will ;

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ditional becom-

few

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are the only ones affected. but this is not true and no pressures are being administered to the airforce.

TRAFFIC LIGHTS

Councillor Herbert Schurman, chairman of the police commit- tee. stated that he had recently met with ayor Morrison, rep- resentatives of the electric light department of the town. Police Chief S.D.A. Wannamak- r and a representative of Northern Electric Co. to deter mine the feasibility of installing town traffic lights.

ounclllor Schurman said the meeting was of the opinion traf- fic signals do not speed up the movement of traffic. but rather‘ rmake it safer. He said Chief Wannamaker is currently pre- paring a brief regarding traffic on Water Street and its rela— tionship to traffic signals.

Councillor Schurman said “before we do anything. every- one will have an opportunity to express his views." He said it until rMay or June to take the action rdecided upon.

Referring to the report of the water and sewage committee. Councillor D. Alex MacDonald said new sewer lines will be in-l stalled this spring to erase! flooding of sections of Water

until the present with 11,4205

adian Red Cross. and it was de-

ciubs m 128 countries and alcided to have a speaker from-

membership of over 530.000. l “The impressive array of L

the Red Cross SOCICIV for March meeting.

the 1

projects promoted on an inter-l

irrational basis and designed ital improve international feIIOWSbipl

and understanding as well as the multitude of good works promoted in tlhe communities where clubs exist is living testi- mony of its many accomplish-1 ments" he said. RAISED 5150.000 .

Mr. Simmonds pointed out that during the last 46 years, the local club has raised for provuicial and city welfare ob~. jectives, more than $150,000r which was donated to suchl wortlhy causes as the Canadian‘. Red Cross, the Rehabilitationl Council. operating expenses for the polio camp. the Protestant and Catholic welfare agencies. the Playground Commission and many more community better. ment projects.

Cutting the birthday cake was performed by the two surviving charter members of the local club. W.S. Grant and Dr. J.A. Clark, while other past pnesi- dents were assigned special

electric whistle on the town hall was frozen during a recent fire and he was in favor of the sounding of the siren and th e air born at 1 o’clock to ensure that each was in working order. The air horn currently sounds only at nine p.m. curfew. Councillor George Key stated he recently met with the H ill- crest civic committee where he learned that residents of Hill- crest and others over a mile away from the town boundaries. are paying a higher telephone rate than residents within a one-mile radius. Councillor Key said he was not aware of this matter, and a check with the 13-

land Tclephone Company 0 on- "

firmed this to be true. Councillor Key referred the

seating. The names and dates of election as presiden are. .ws. Grant 1919, Dr. J. . 1 Clark ‘21, James M. Murley '36, NJ). MacLean ’37. Mr. Justice

G.J. Tweedy, '38. Dr. Heath Mclntyie, '40 Hod. T. W. L. Prowse, 43. Dr. Sterling Cid—l

idlngs. ‘51, Gordon Avard ‘52,i

W.W. Reid, '53. Frank Curtisl ‘55. R.C. Parent. ’57, R.E. Sal-l ler. '58. T De loirs, 60, John: Simmonds 1961.

The guest speaker Jack Am- bler, executive director of the PEI. Unified Fund was intro- duced by the chairman, Frank Curtis, president of that organ- ization and thanked by immedi- ate past president. RE. Seller, co-chaimian .

e financial aspects of our operations from the many other things that add up to a stable and well-balanced health and welfare picture", Mr. Ambler aid in referring to the United Fund. “It appears that have i oun- midst who would make use of the 10-month .

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I Two films We're shown entitl- ed “Maihematics at You Fingertips“ and “The L ivin Machine”. The first dealt with

day find new ways to pe young minds to the e x citing science of this study.

e second film explores the progress already made in elec-

lwere purchased, to be used at tronics technology. and the new

frontiers of knowledge and ex- perience that these man- m'de chines will open to man ‘ himself.

After adjournment of meeting a social hour was joyed.

t II c en-

r of Mrs. Charles E. Hardy.

Former Resident Of Stanhope Dies

The death occurred Saturday. I Feb. 16. at New Bedford. Mass. the former Mary Elizabeth Hudson of Stanhope P.E.I.

Mrs. Hardy is survived three sons and a daughter. of New Bedford. and a sister. Mrs. William H. Tillson. 17 Ex- eter Street. New Bedford.

A sister. Mrs. Russell Abbott (Annie) of Charlottetown. and a brother. Victor, predeceased

by I!

er.

The funeral and interment will take place today in New Bed- ford

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Dozer Clears

"—.Site For New

Georgetown Lady Dies GEORGETOWN — The death

occurred in the Charlottetown Hospital. Sunday. Feb. 17.

f ‘Mrs. John Batchildcr of George-

town. aged 75 years.

The late Mrs. Batc-hilder had een in poor health for the past several months. She was former Philomena Gallant of Rustico and had resided in Georgetown for nearly 55 years where she was one of the town's most highly regarded citizens. S e leaves to mourn besides her husband: Mary (Mrs. Peter Jay), Charlottetown: A g n e 5 (Mrs. Temple MacD o n a l d), Georgetown Royalty: Janie and Catherine (Mrs. Frank Power). Elliotvale; also six sons: Law- rence, and Bernard. George- town; Walter, Calgary; Stephen. Charlottetown: Leonard, Elliott

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{Food Plant

1. MONTAGUE - Preparation of the sire of the new

Valley Frosted Foods process. mg plant got underway here yesterday.

A government bulldozer be- can work in clearing the site while the ground is frozen. in preparation for the spring con. struction.

Test holes were also dug to ‘ determine the best location for I the foundation of the plant.

lSeven Lalo. Technicians To Graduate

Seven laboratory technicians

"It is impossible llo detach L tli

from St. Ja m e 5’ Georgetown.

ake. Ont., and Ferdnand, Torv onto; also one sister. Mrs. Hel- en Martell. Georgetown two brothers, Alfred, Rus and Nicholas of Alberta. Funeral services will be held Wednesday morning at 9:45 C h u r c h.

a n d tico

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vacuum we have created by the I rest off in the operation j of our United Fund". l

INDIVIDUAL CAMPAIGNS “This infiltration of individual campaigns has progressed to the point whens the sponsors of such programs are attempting to piggyback on the payroll de. ductions plans instituted by firms for the United Fund. We may n e run into this problem locally as yet but some national agencies have sent directives to their local Depre- sentatives giving this as the that by which they can

you have an instrument that can. if

situation to Lorne Monkley. MLA. who made representation to the Board of Public Utilities in an effort to establish 0 he telephone rate In the town. T ard is currently investigating

correctly used. assure the pro-= gnessive devel out all our lsocial community. The key. of. I course. is in the use to which

hel we put our United Fund organiz-

l .-. ion. MORE SUPPORT

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New Dems Plan Meet

Malcolm Maclnnis.

parliament. will probably be

guest speaker at the convention

which the party has called

arch 2 in Charlottetown, it was learned Monday from Ian B. Webster. provincial president.

Efforts are being made now come here for the convention which in theI ‘Parkdale Hall. it was learned’

to have cInnis will probably be held

yesterday.

. The party will also name can-E didates at the convention for the v

fou-r Island seats.

New Dev mocratic party member f or Cape Breton South in the la st

the

will receive certificates at graduation ceremony Wednes- day evening at the Charlotte- town Hospital nurses' residence. Graduates are Betty C h ‘

1118.

uris East; Janet Jones, Pow-

al Prim: Montague; High Bank; Ilene Norrie. North River Road; and Sandra White. Murray Harbor.

Delivering ithe graduation ad- dress will be lan, chief of surgery. Charlotte- town. who will also present the certificates.

Miss Myrna Coles. RT. presi- dent of P.E.I. Branch. CSLT, will present badges. will be made

Evelyn MacKinnon. Katherine

Joan Macs w

Dr. J.A.

for atories.

Ma

Point

MacL e o d.

sin.

cMil-

by Dr. F.W. Jelks, bacteriologist. division of labor-

Chairman of the event is to be Dr. John Craig. division of lab- oratories.

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Police Chief Stems Webster. last night reported that the city police department has un- der investigation a theft at the horn of En] Lavers. 91 Upper Prince Street. which occurred sometime during the weekend.

Entry into the residence was made through the front door. which was apparently left a n- locked when the family went out. Police were informed the house had been ransacked and that approximately $70 was mis- sing.

EASIERN BRIEFS

McEACHERN FUNERAL - The funeral for Harold McEach- era was held Saturday morning from the home of Eachern. to St. Columbus's Church. East Point. where Requiem High Mass was cele- brated by Rev. W.D. MacDon- ald who also conducted service at the grave. Pallbearers were Felix McPhee. Andrew Mc-r Eachern. Daniel A. MacDonald. Joseph A. McEachern. Bernard Ryan. Charles Campbell. Inter- ‘nent was in the church c c m e- tery.

UGHES FUNERAL — The funeral for John Edward Hugh- es took place Monday morning from his late residence. Morell, to the Church of the Little Flow- er. where Solemn Requiem High Mass was celebrated by Rev. William Simpson. PP. as

y Rev. Charles Gallant. deac- on and Rev. Clare MacDonald. sub-deacon. Rtv. Finley Mul-

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‘Construction Starts

On Memori

By NEIL A. MATHESON Provincial and Farm Editor Construction work for the Pa

thers of Confederation Mem- orial Building will cover the; Market Square. and the adjoin- ing area formerly occupied by the Cabot Building, and will al- so extend eastward between the Cenotaph and the Province Buil- ding. to a line parallel with the

al Building

[any difficulty with the excava- Ition, although the frost may be in fairly deep. A job last winter was done with the temperature down to 30 degrees below zero, he recalled.

Mr. Rickard has his construe.- tion office for the present in the former K and R store on Richmond Street. just across the street from the job location.

eastern end of that building. it

was lea-med yesterday from

R. M. Rickard. general super-

intendent for the Piggott Con-

struction Company, which has

the contract for the $5,099.994 t.

Excavation work will be done on practically the whole of the old Market Square area. with the digging going down to 30 feet where the theatre is to be located. it was explained.

The preliminary work got un- derway yesterday afternoon. with the sinking of post holes for the fence around the square perimeter, and excavation work is expected to start in a couple of days time. it was learned from Mr. Rickard and his field engineer. J. F. Trew.