Summersida Guides and Brownies have donated a rec- ord player and five long-play- ing records to the children's ward of Prince County Hospi-

Accused

SUMMERSIDE Francis Joseph "Peanuts" Arseiiault. Summerslde. was committed

yesterday to stand trial at the next sitting of Supreme Court in Prince County. Arsenault is charged with breaking and en- tering the dwelling house of Mrs. L.G. Lewis. Summerside, Dec. 11. 1962. with intent to commit an indictable offence therein by assaulting her.

The preliminary hearng yes- terday was herd before Magis- trate R.S. Hinton. QC. in town police court. Acting for the Crown was John J. Holmes of the attorney-general‘is depart- men! and representing the ac« ciised was J. Harold Goodwin.

First witness to give evidence was Cnst. Nell Sharpe of the Summerside town police force. He testified that abqhauio a.m..

Dec, ll. immany with Constables 'Red’ Berry and Carl Newscme. went to the

home of Mrs. L.G. Lewis. where they had a brief conversation with her.

Cnst. Sharpe said he and Cost Newsome followed some footprints leading from the front porch. Newly-fallen snow was on the ground. The tracks led across streets and back- yards. The person at the end of the trail was the accused Arsen- ault. he said. He resisted ar- rest at first but soon surrend- ered after a brief struggle.

He was later that night taken to the home of Mrs. Lewis and she was asked to identify him. Mrs. Lewis asked the man to put a handkerchief on his face. which he did. and she said that it was the man she had seen in her home earlier that night.

The police officer found a ladies' handbag in the rear yard of Compton's Funeral Home next door. Mrs. Lewis identified it as hera. In the back yard of 475 Shem Street. where the scuffle with the police officers occurred. they found an unopen‘ ed quart of rum. Mrs. Lewis also identified this as being hers.

Second Crown witness was Cnst Carl Newsame. Summer- side town police. He corrobora-

a_wakened later in the night. Sit‘ ting up in bed. she saw a man's form in the hallway. She said lhe got out bed. keeping all lights off. and went out.

LATE NOTICES

(Also see announcements in columns adiolalag Classified Atl- Vertiafng section.)

I“.- CRANE — At the Prince Ed- ward laland Hospital. Dec. 20. 1982. Harry S. Crane. M. Stewart. in his 50th year. The remains are resting at the

noon Saturday then to .

Stewart United Church. ser-

vice commencing at 2 pm.

i torment in the hit-Stewart history.

M

a co CABB - At the Prince Edward

island Kamila]. riday. Dec. 11. in. Golden H. Carr of

at the Cutcliffe Fun- f::l Home. Funeral n otica er.

I MACDONALD —- At the P.E.l. Hospital Friday. Dec. 2 1962 Mrs. Matilda Ann

of In. Vanldcratiao of a tirl Street. .3. MacDonald. Halifax. NE. in her 91st year. \ d the an Fun- eral llama. from where the lace s u n- aerv i c e at I p.in. Inter- :Olt'wll ttda in Low- oa agile cemetery. Pica-a omit flowers.

Macl )iinald: i'ran r A.

tal. The record player was purchased by each guide and brownie sharing the cost. rather t h a n e x e hanging Christmas gifts. The records

RECORD PLAYER, RECORDSPRESENTED TO HOSPITAL

were given by Mark G a udet. Summerslde. Shown here are left to right J.M. Logan. hos- pitol administrator. who ac- cepted the gifts; Susan Craig,

Will S’rand Trial

The man asked “What do you want"? and struck her on the head. knocking her to the floor. Witness aid the man told her “Don't open your mouth. . . . open that safe . . . don't make a wrong move or I’ll kill you". The man had a covering on the lower part of his face. He forced her to open the safe and rifled it. then pushed her down the stairs. she stated.

TOOK BOTTLE

Mrs. Lewis testified the light was on in the vestibule and she got a look at the man's form there. The man spotted a bottle of rum standing on a table in the vestibule and said he would take that too. The man then put rs. Lewis in th porch. Mrs. Lewis said she came out too soon and t‘“ "We came at her with a bottle of rum in one hand and tan. .is to stay in there or he would kill her. The next time Mrs. Lewis came out. he was gone. and she called the police.

Witness said her purse con‘ taining her bank book was miss- ing. but was found that night by the police officers in the back yard of Compton’s Funeral Home.

She said when the policemen brought back a man later that night she was asked to identify him. Witness stated that she re- cognized the white shirt at the open neck. the crew-cut hair style and wrinkled brow of the man. She asked him to put on a handkerchief. which he did. and Mrs. Lewis said it was the man she had seen in her home that night. Witness said several ar- ticles were missing from her home and the kitchen was com- pletely ransacked.

She said she thought the door was locked because it wu nor-

On Break, Assault Coun’r

mal procedure for her to do so.

On cross-examination. Mrs. Lewis said she asked the man to put on the handkerchinef so that she could be absolutely cer- tain it was the same person be- fore she made her decision.

Cnst. Berry, Summerside town police force, testified that he examined the Lewis home the night of Dec. 11 and the kit- chen was ransacked. the safe upstairs had been opened and papers strewn over the floor. Cnst Berry also said he arrest- ed Arsenault and searched him at Prince County jail. FINGERPIIINTS FOUND

nst. Fried Connoll . RCMP

Summerside detachment. testi- fied that the afternoon of Dec. 11 he had gone to the Lewis home and lifted several finger- prints and sent these to Cpl. Mackenzie at the RCMP iden- tification section in Charlotte- to

wn. Chief of Police S. Donald A. Wannamaker. testified that two citizens had given him a bank book belonging to Mrs. Lewis. They had found the book in rside. He also received several articles from- Connolly and the three inves« tigatlng officers. and he kept them in his possession until dis- played in court. Cpl. Roderick MacKonzie. in charge of the ideati

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ficatton sec- tion. Charlottetown RCMP hea quarters. testified that he had received articles from Chief Wannamaker and Cost Connolly and he examinedy them for fin- gerprints. Cpl. MacKenzie said that he found some fingerprints on some of the articles that cor- respond to fingerprints taken for filing purposes from Arsenault after his arrest Dec. 11.

Arsenault elected trial by a Judge and jury.

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lst Brownie Pack;

W e n d y Duggan. 4th Guide Troop; June P hillips. 4th Brown- ie Pack: Norma Ramsay. lst Guide Troop. and Sharon Su- therland, 5th Brownie Pack.

ISLAND NEWS PAGE

Summerside And Prince Coun

. Agriculture Minister Andrew _ B. MacRae has answered charg- ‘ es in ad e Thursday by C. M.

The Guardian. Charlottetown, Sat. Dec. 22, 1962. 3? MacLean that he had given in-i

.correct figures for blueberry!

2-Year Prison Terms Given 0n Assault Count

SUMMERSIDE BUREAU OF THE GUARDIAN Two-year penitentiary sentenc- es to three men convicted of assaulting a Borden woman were imposed yesterday by Chief Justice Thane A. Camp‘ bell. in Supreme Court at Sum« merside. The three are Donald Joseph

: Noonan. Leonard Joseph Noon-

an. both of Borden, and Edison Damarell MeKenna. Albany charged with rape. and found guilty of a lesser offence of as- sault.

SOME DOUBT In passing sentence Chief Justice Campbell said: “In finding you not guilty of rape. the 'jury apparently decided that the principal crown witness was not entirely devoid f blame. and they therefore entertained some doubt on the issue of lack of consent.

“In finding you guilty of as sault. they obviously based their decision principally on the cig-

FRANCE

Continued from page i

It was understood he was leery of putting Skybolt In the British arsenal because y knew with certainty What the ultimate cot mi ht be or whether an effective Skybolt could be de- veloped. - president also offered Britain the Hounddog. a rela- tively short - range air - to- ground missile. Macmillan and his advisors did not want Hound- dog because of technical difficul- ties in adapting it to British use.

Kennedy left Nassau in mid- afternoon to fly to Palm Beach for Christmas with his family. Macmillan. a ft e r conferring with Canadian Prime Minister Diefenbaker on world problems. will fly home to London late to-

day.

Diefenbaker arrived here by plane from Ottawa shortly be- fore noon Friday and all three leaders had lunch together.

Kenne y and Macmillan. the communique said. covered a “wide range of topics" in their four-day meeting here. includ- ing the development of a pro- gram of U.S-British aid to In- dia on which there was reported firm agreement. But the Polaris decision aiming at the forma- tion of a NATO nuclear force vastly overshadowed everything else.

Officials said the Nassau de« cision means that the days of the manned-bomber force for nuclear weapons. at least on any large scale, are numbered.

U.S. 'officials said that the Polaris deal Would give Britain a proved and powerful weapon at far fess cost than it could have obtained by going forward with the abandoned Skybolt pro- gram. The money thus saved. these officials said. can be used for maintaining or expanding Britain's conventional. non-nu- clear forces.

CHRISTMAS ISLAND

The 64-square mile Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean has

a population of slightly more than 2000.

HAD STORMY START

Cutcliffe Funeral Home until return t

First West Kent School Played Important Role

By STERLING KNEEBONE Guardian-Patriot staff Writer

The old West Kent School in Charlottetown has turned out its last graduates!

Time has caught up with the 84«year-old structure and it has given way to a newer. more modem building. However. its name will live on. as the new school will be call'ed West Kent 00

t .

Thursday chidren made their way through its corridors for the last time and this morning

‘ its desks. chairs. bookcases. and

other furniture will be sold. 7 t new West Kent in the Brighton takes over where its former namesake left off as the children from their Giriatanaa holidays to continue their educa- tion in bright new surroundings. When tendon were called for the old school in ma than: were objections made as to the price of the building and the site. An item In Jan. 29. um notes would cost from $30M” to 84)..

Elm Avenue in his 73rd year. 000

It continues: “As to the pro- priety of placing that much debt upon the City. we offer no optik ion. We dare say the trustees will be able to show that its erection will result in a saving of outlay for munht we aidi-

people who have to pay for i ." OBJECTIONS RAISED

M.4lntheMarketBaII.“for thopurpoaooftaiio‘iatoonr

alderation the action of the

The ng objected "that the Bond had other that were e: that the mind of the site would not Import have a build ing. as it w marshy. and the

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Mr. MacNutt's bionniation reveals the coomerstone laying ceremony was held April 29. 1878 and a procession of 1.200 children from all the putfl schools in the city was formed at the Upper Prince Street Schoo care

3’

l to take part in the mcny.

The proceedings were open- ed by man of the City Board of School Trustees. Mr. Longworth was followed by EJ. Hod mem r of the school Hon. L.H. Davies. president of the executive council: Chief Justice Palmer. and Sir Robert Hodgson. Lieutenant - Govern- or. Lieutenant- Governor Hodg- son laid the cornerstone.

IN CORNEBSTONE

The cornerstone bore an in- scription in Latin referring to the date of the function a n d giving the names of the mem- bers of the school board.

Enclosed in a bottle in the cornerstone were a copy of the Public Schools Act. 1m. and the report of the board of edu- cation for 1867. June a. the Board accepted the tender of MacDonald a n d Company. Halifax of $2.190 for installation of a steam heating plant in the school.

Throughout the years W e s t Kent School turned on graduates who

gson. a board:

|pal replacing H.W. Yeo ' h

of their communities.

In 1946 the present principal C.. Hine took over as princi- T e school continued-to ac-

.comodate classes from one to to

until 195‘ when grades six to to moved to the new ween Char- lotte High School on N o r t h River Road.

rette burns inflicted on your victim. ust. therefore. have entirely disbelieved the account of Leonard Noonan. to the effect that he had intercour- se with the complainant with her active consent. and that her burns were sustained by her falling into the embers of a bonfire."

The Chief Justice noted that the conduct of each of the three men on this Sunday in question was most reprehensible. and he observed that the burning epi- sode "introduced an element of sadism which hitherto ha 3 been absent from the records of our courts.”

EVIDENCE POINTS

He said that although the evi- dence points to Donald Josaph Noonan. alone. as the overt per- petrator of this incident. the jury must have found that the

By THE CANADIAN PRESS

Have the last place Boston Bruins finally begun a move to leave the National Hockey League cellar?

There are signs. although not all of them are as obvious as the team's fine 5-3 win over De- troit Red Wings in Detroit Thursday night.

In their first 24 games this season. the Bruins managed just two wins while playing to seven ties.

In their last six games they have Won two and tied one— that in itself is a big change. But when you consider that they lost by just one goal. 3-2 to the first place Chicago Black Hawks Wednesday in the wild and wooiy Chicago Stadium and then We nt to Detroit and dumped the Wings the following night. the form begins to take a little shape.

Hockey Fans Asking II BIUIIIS 0n Way Gangsters:

Windsor Hangs 9-4 Defeat On N. Glasgow

WINDSOR. NS. (OP) Cellar-dwelling Windsor Maple Leafs put on a tremendous throw second~place New Glasgow drive here Friday night to

Hon. J. Longworth. chafr- Bessie

Rangers for a 9-4 loss in a Nova Scotia Hockey League fixture. About 500 fans turned out to watch Windsor marksman Simon Nolet blast three shots past Moncton goalile Ron Boom- er and assist on others to lead his club to victory. It was still anybody’s contest after the first period when ' McDonald for Leafs and Ralph Cameron even- ed the count fou- Rangers. Windsor's drive comic in the second period when Yves Cos- sette. Denis Menard. Nolet and Rod Gaudreault hit the score- slieet with gow went period.

singles. New Glas- acoireless in the

prices when addressing a Fed-l eration of Agriculture meetingi1 this week. 1

Mr. MacLean referred to the‘ minister's statements as being} "unfair and misleading" a n d

“the type that is killing the!

i P.E.I. markets." i

Minister Sticks By Prices- Quoted In Federation Speec

[the Siimmerside home: by a (‘E‘W‘ Sing-SOUS.

Places carolled “91‘? Prince County Hospital. amI the resi- dence of Mayor J. Ernest Mor- rison. plus many other homes and business firms.

Newfoundland and 12 cents a The students plan to swge

pound in Nova Scotia compared

- . their big musical in mid‘ J a ii- WIth seven cents received by; v . . , . . growers in P E! .uary Ticket sales this week ill

He also stated the “for” of dicate a tremendous interest in e.—

the federal and provincial ‘th pmdUCtmn' partments of agriculture are be- . . ing wasted when such low P H P f prices are received here be- I a cause growers can't afford to give proper maintenance to T S k S

o pea un.

their crops. when all they

ceive is seven cents a pound Mr. MacLean said Thursday SUMMMI‘JMIDE " “W D'- R C. Chalmers. professor of

“is “m was "‘9 New“ my?“ theology at Pine Hill Divinity

"‘hl‘igvi, 159°“ bemesv f“'=iiaii in Halifax. will preach the

w 'c 8” cents. per poundlmorning Christmas sermon at

$55.13 3..” m “9” cle.a"‘Trinity United Church in Sum- ?“es' If P‘E'I' the prices merside this Sunday.

was .5?!an cents for u n' The evening service at this bgrr'es' church will feature the senior

He said the Maine price was . . . . choir in the presentation of the 10 cents. not 20 cents. for field Christmas cantata, “The Man_

clean berries. ger King

0 Sum-Hi Cast O {known and neglected plays next season. starting with Troilus

SUMMERSIDE —— The cast of i and Cressida and The Comedy Summerside High School Thea-‘nf Errors and following with tre Guild’s Broadway musical Timon of Athens. It will also production “The King And I" revive last season‘s successful last night entertained some of‘Cyrano de Bergerac.

pat clean

l ANNOUNCED PROGRAM

. (CPi—The §Stratford festival present ‘three of Shakespeare‘s lesser-

. ; Reid Sangster. who had been in other accused were accesspries. ‘ touch with the marketing 59,... “This emails“)an he said‘ “I5 l vices in Maine. Newfoundi arid‘I strengthened by the fantasticland Nova Scotia_ ' . and callous explanation attemp- The prices quoted by the miml M . . an- iister were 20 cents a pound in.I Chief Justice Campbell ob-;Maine; 14 cents a pound in served that the court normally‘ ' [ avoids the imposition of a ma- ximum sentence. but said it “is I difficult to conceive a more! 1 serious case of common 35-. continued from page 1 [ ault' . . . i “The British deterrent is seen ‘ He said his observation of the ‘ as being 3 myth since it is ‘, conduct of discharged prisonersiclem. that in a comparatively impelled him to conclude that l short time it will be given up. every major sentence should be . we do not yet know what the “flowed by a PSrIOd 0‘ pmba‘ least of the submarines will be, tion and superVISion. and he not- ybut it is obvious the money ed that “Ch 0‘ the three. 9"" i could be better spent in various soners. “has had an unenVia aways." \ record before the courts-n I The cabinet—with the chief GIVES SENTENCE )ministers concerned in Nassau‘ Chlef Jusuc." Campbdl “on‘ —gave routine approval to the filmed by Saymgv the 59"”“99 ideal before publication of its of the court. therefore. is that norms. you and e“ or W.“ be. lmpn'l Brown’s chief complaint wasl “mm the pemtenl‘ary at . that the a g r e e m e n t, under ‘ Dmmt" i“. “‘9 mmce °fIwhich Britain and the Unitedi New Brunswwk for the term[ States would both assign some; of two years; also. that beforef of their “bombers to NATO; y?" release’ .you' and “Ch and the US. would sell Britain! 0 you' enter ""0 your respec' Polaris missiles to equip an as- !

tive recognizance in the sum of] - .

. yet unbuiit nuclear submarine. $500. conditioned to keep the E _‘ peace and be of good behaviorlgfigg' Shou‘d have b fore I

, . for a term of one year follow-; He said the Labor party had;

:11: tmurfi file???" :23 '2! feet“? hinged acceptance of Polaris! month during that period to the i n‘gf,’ person in charge of the Roya Canadian Mounted Police de- tachment. nearest to the place ‘ $353.?“ 8” at the “me re'gus. FINGER ON BUTTON

The Chief Justice added that; There is strong su§Picion that 3 he was aware they have been un- the ‘ ~v 3,5 NATO 5 Strong?“ ; der arrest for this charge since I member' “"11 keep 1? Strong fm' ‘ July 22. He said the court is not gag 0" tiny NATO tugger Set “P

. . _.un er e new program.

permitted to antidate the com [ First tangible effect of the

mencemem 0f sentence’ -bu iNassau conference was felt on would recommend that their pe t e stock exchange. Shipbuild

‘ s f im risonment. e