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~ “Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew”

CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1966,

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Hot Weathe,

NEW YORK (CP) prices here are reaching record highs --because-.-of~.poor.--catches by U.S. fishermen on the Atlan- tic.

Government offic ials b lame poor catches on a Jong. hot sum- “mer, which tesulled>m the fish

moving away from traditional fishing grounds in. search of food.

‘Same fisheries spokesmen are blaming Russian fishing fleets, but government officials. dis- count this.

For hoisewives the increased | price of fish is added to peak prices for such staples as bread, milk, eggs and butter.

Scup Sometimes called. por- gies -- a favorite fish here, es: pecially among the low-income

families, sell for between,65 and 67 cents a pound, almost double — last’-vear's price.

Flounder fillets are selling for “$1.10 a pound and cod fillets at 85 cents. No mackeral is avail: able A

“This is the roughest summer for production 1 have ever seen,’ said John Von Glahn. di-

rector of. the Fishery. Counci:-a—

group._of_more—than-—100—fish— wholesalers “The hot weather did it.The

fish moved. to other areas. The stuff they feed on moved and they followed.”

Asked about statements that large Russian fleets are operat- _ing_on favorite fishing grounds, ‘of Americans off the New Eng- land, New York and New Jersey. shores, he said

“They have been out there for a long time—two or three years. The fellows at the Fulton fish | market (where fishermen un- load catches here) teH us they | take everything: but.the rocks."

CAN’T FIND FISH

Tom Risoli, head of the Mar- ket News. Service of the US,- Bureau..of,-Commercial= Fisher: Yes. said American fishermen just can’t find the fish.

“The. ‘scutilebutt=--onthe- mar-

ket is that all the foreign ves- sels are to blame: But we have no proof.”

Retail fish |

eo 4s Catch

Charles Philbrook, a member of Skerry's staff who regularly imakes~-surveys~ from-~ a-~ coast |Bank,~-60~miles--off Cape’ Cod, [Ruane plane, said extensive for- ‘Mass.>~plus other vessels scat- jeign operations “could or will’ |tered between Greenland and lhave-an effect on the- fishing. |South America. |The Russians are. constantly | He said the Russ Joff the New England: area. But \contained -as many there is a fair abundance. We | sels.

[suspect that constant effort by this. tremendous fleet will have

Dealers say some effect in time and will ely have to be. studied.”

Skerry said Russia rhw has

< i ves-

caused by Canadian and) U.S. exports to Europe.

City Resident Fatally Injured ~

Charles J, Wedge, 36, of Char-|(Dr.) James O'Neill,, Halifax; lottetown was fatally. injured Sat- | Leona, Mrs, Ephriam Malone, urday night-when a car he was | and velda, Mrs. Stanley Gallant, driving left the highway. near | both of Charlottetown. ° Portage and overturned. He was | pinned under the Vauxhall | been completed last night.

PSs pe Vole.

The vehicle, proceeding west, went into ‘a growth of _ alder. bushes and was not seen from the highway. The accident oe- \eurred about 11 Saturday night

and it” was not until Sunday morning a passenger, William Wedge, 69, an uncle of the

driver, managed to crawl to the

road and summon help.

_-Theinjured—man--was*taken__

| first to-the O'Leary Community; yic7oRIA: (CP) Formal

Hospital_and_ later moved © ‘political speeches have ended: as > ;

| the Veterans Wing of the P.E.I. \178: candidates await . the’ - out

| Hospital. He was:said to be suf-} | fering from a fractured wrist and | \come of voting today in the gen- la fractured ankle. In addition jeral election in British Columbia ‘he lost considerable blood: |—-the second vote in three years. Royal Canadian Mou nt ed| The weatherman said there is | Police at -Alberton,..who, inves-|a 50.per_.cent. chance of rain | tigated, said a_coroner~-had-an= during the polling hours of 8

| nounced there would be no in-|a.m. to-8 p.m. Officials expect | quest. ja heavy turndut of 600,000. Mr. Wedge, a_native ol. Mim-|. A’ total. of. 873,783.persons:

inegash,-has.. been -in--Charlotte- iregistered.- to=vote-and-adva town for some 18 years. He had’ ipols that opened Thursday ‘and ; been an employee of Canada!continued until Saturday _re- | Packers, driving a.truck in #18: fparted “a heavy attendance.

delivery. ‘| In the last election in’ 1963, a

He was a son of Mrs. Charles); | Wedge and: the tale Ac: Wedae | Pini of 873,140 persons were eli-

| of Mimir*gash. Surviving

| addition to his mother are his | wife.. the former Myrtle Griffin | lof Bloomfield, a son, Michael! ho of, his 14-year-old _ Social and two daughters, Cheryle and Credit government, Premier Phyllis: four. brothers, Irving|W. A. C. Bennett didn’t stray ; and Edgar in. Toronto: Merritt, far from his theme of private | | Halifax, | Alyre, Miminegash: jenterprise against New Demo- land three. sisters, Rosie, Mrs. leratic Party socialism.

ie |

In his campaign for re-elec-

Armored Bulldozer Used To Escape East Germany

BERLIN (AP) -—— Under a hail of machine-gun fire, two East German couples and a_ four- year-old boy ~ crashed through | barbed wire in an armored bull- dozer Sunday in a succé&sful flight. toe’ West Berlin.

One of the men and one of the women, grazed by East Ger- man police bullets, were treated for minor head wounds at a West. Berlin -hospital and re- leased. The other woman was | reported to be in an advanced | state of pregnancy.

The spectacular escapé wes staged at mid-morning into the British sector. The caterpillar- tread vehicle had been made into a makeshift armore:l by

its sides.

West Berlin police said the

East German ‘guards, spotting. the bulldozer from a_ watch- |’ ‘ower, fired about 100 rounds

‘rom sub-machine guns

their

car) adding steel plates around |

Thirty - eight bullets hit the ve- lhicle and several pierced the thin steel protection, police said.

The bulldozer ripped througt four “barbed wire fences beime ramming into a tree a tew lyards inside West Berlin. Then, police said, the occupams jumped out and ran to a nearby

as a .24-year-old man, his preg- nant wife; 26, their four-year- old son, and the second couple, the man 29 and the woman 18.

The three Western occupation commanders in Berlin protested about the use of weapons by the East German guards, terming it a new example of the “‘totally

igarden fence. One of the men irresponsible. behavior on the iripped: up the bottom and they part of the border guards, in- jall crawled underneath it. ivolving also grave danger to

lives in West Berlin.” .

Two armored personnel car- riers drove to the East Gerrhan | side of the border at. the ge of the incident and about minutes after the escape, ford iof them pulled the bulldozer, | ‘sitting practically on the border

A Withee weld one Of the brett: jline, back into East Berlin. gees, “carrying the child in his | The group was believed to arms, repeatedly cried — out: jhe largest to flee to West pea are we in the West? since 57 East Germans escaped |

Are we | lin the West?” ‘ ‘through a secret tunnel under | | Police described the

ICONTINUE. FIRING

| Two East German, borcer guards who had fired from a nearby watchtower at the hurt ling bulldozer ran towards the ibarbed wire fencé with sub- machine -. guns blazing, police |said.

refugees ‘the Communist wall.

TWO EAST German couples and a four-year-old boy smash- ed their way to freedom in West Berlin Sunday morning im a bulldozer which had been

plates.

steel They went through the barbed’ wire border in a hail of bul- lets to the British sector of

reinforced with East German soldiers pulled the. bulldozer back into their territory and set about. re- c pairing the fences.

Spandau. One man and one (AP. Wirephoto by, cable from

woman were injured slightly, Berlin)

about 50 trawlers on Georges |

n fleet has |

| Lobster prices here are also - |being forced up by a shortage.’ the shortage is larg- |

Funeral arrangements had not | |:

Due Today :

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Forest Fire Extinguished

SINTRA. Portugal (AP). —

SEEN HERE are the rem- nants -of--a~ large barn that | buffied early last evening on the farm of Herrell Arbing,

The fire had threatened the | town of Sintra, two ‘villages, and dozens of mountain houses.

Arbing at Bedford Station.

The around-6:30 erupted in the barn and spread to the smaller build- ing. A high wind caused a threat C the nearby dwelling

Plane Lost On Flight From Here

An air search will get under- | way today for a light plane mis- sing on a flight from Charlotte- | town to a lake near Port aux | Baxques, Nfld-

A spokesman at Air-Sea Res- | cue headquarters in Halifax said , an Albatross aircraft from.CFB Greenwood will search for the | plane which left Charlottétown | Saturday night. | Strongly. critical of the recent

Royal Canadian Mounted Po- railway strike tying up the car lice in Charlottetown said they |ferries at Borden, directors of

had little information. They sald |the P.E.I- Tourist Association four seaplanes landed here to |Saturday passed a_ resolution re-fuel but only three reached | jealling on Hon. J.W. Pickers-

Newfoundland. gill, federal minister of trans- Names of the occupants on the pot to take operation of the missing craft. are being with-|ferries out of the hands of the

/held pending notification of next |railway. The directors also in- —_ lstructed copies of the resolu-

Mourners Segregated “= At Verwoerd s Funeral

PRETORIA (Reuters) As- sassinated Prime Minister Hen- drik Verwoerd. _of., South. Africa was buried here Saturday in state funeral that kept, strictly to his apartheid principles— with fhe non-white mourners carefully segregated from whites.

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whose vague history police are still investigating.

irelieved by a few rare gusts of iwind, the muffled ‘drumming of brsss bands, and the dull boom |

-|minute intervals.

Several women fainted dur-| ing the service but. Verwoerd's |

In a vast. open-air amphi- | theatre converted into a church, |. the dignitaries of South Africa’ s |

widow, Mrs. Betsie Verwoerd, non - white population watched | ; the service aod a separate [Rat .: Composed and pale, ju 2 simple black dress.

block of seats.

‘lot generation after generation. ve

In. Bedford

A fire of unknown origin dés- | house te, water was poured on troyed a iarge barn and another | the -house for some time to keep smaller building early last eve-| the flames from spreading to it. ning on the farm of Herrell |

| Saturday, dav of the funeral. | 2 was \an intensely hot, still day, |

the lof saluting guns fired at one-

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From AP- Keilers SAIGON (CP)—Defiant or in-

70 per cent of the voting popula- tion turned out Sunday to ‘cast | ballots in war-torn South Viet) Nam’s~election for a Constituent Assembly:

Officials termed the turnout— heavier in areas—of .the guer-| rilla - harassed Mekong. Delta than in. Saigon—a dramatic de- | feat for the.Communists and a) rebuff for a dissident. Buddhist; movement.

Voters went to polling places | by ox cart and on foot in rural areas and, on_ bicycles and

itrucks in the major cities, de-

spite terrorist attacks on elec-

tion day.

| The military government said | final voting figures will be an-

|

The voters picked 108 mem-

| Assembly. “which is due to CON: | vene in two weeks to “draft a | constitution by next March. Nine other seats, bringing the total to 117. -will be filled bv

d Station. The fire, by - dwelling house. Approxi- | mountain tribes using their own | which erupted around 6.30, -mately 47 animals were’, iost igelection procedures. gained headway quickly due along with a large/quantity of Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, who to strong winds and for some hay and straw — farm says his military government —— was-a-threat.to-the nee equipment. a will step down once the civilian

Large Barn Is. Destroyed- rd Station Fire

in the blaze. The loss was unofficially esti-

Tourist Directors Urge Ferries Be Taken From Railway Control :

tion be forwarded | Premier ja CampbeH and Hon. M.L. Bon-|p, nell, minister of tourist develop- ment.

It was also decided to call on the Canadian Tourist Associa-

president of Burlington heard some lively discussion on a wide range of subjects. One which" excited considerable talk was the matter, of tourist operators’ pay- }ing a full year’s school tax when | they, are operating their estab- lishments generally ‘for | only three to four months.:

A decision’ was also reached to approach the Public Utility | Commission regarding the mat-| iter of higher rates for tele- | | phone calls made by visitors at tourist establishments. . Opera: tors maintained the inereased cost of operating switchhoards in their establishments ‘resulted in an annual loss of substantial | amounts. They also went on | record as favoring appointment of a full time deputy minister \of the tourist ministry. |

Expressing. approval of spe- icial events, such as the Gold ;Cup and. Saucer: Parade, the dir- jectors decided to appeal to all itheir members for greater par- | ticipation in such parades in the jmatter of providing floats:

The traditional ‘welcome’ to a

lisland test sile

Thirty-five pigs, 12 calves, a} Mt. | milking machine and a large} North River Fire Departments

fire which broke out quantity of hay and straw along| along with an engine from the 120 more in an 11th-hoyr wave with barn equipment were lost | near by national park.

the scene all night as the wind} mated Had be somewhere about continued to. ian a echiers.

taken: | The meeting, presided over) | by Lieut. Col. E.W. Johnstone,

apparatus-is set up in a year or | so, has said a turnout pf 60 pet cent would please his govern- | ment: >

The: government ebeime-d| —\Sunday night that of 5.288.512 _leligible voters in areds -eontrol- led by: it and the US. forces,

bers of the Civilian Constituent ermine

Guerrillas Fail

Turnout

ghes!

6 per cent, with the in the

more than 90 per cent

different. to- Viet Cong. terrorists, norhern provinces of South’ Viet °

Nam.

It. Was in these provinces learlier_ this year that 4. three- month-long . armed rebel'ion took place against igenerals in support of public de- mands for a return to civilian irule.

Despile ‘a stepping-up of {er- rorist acts in the few hours he- /fore and. after. polling .began, lvoters seemed unperturbed.

At one. polling. station on .the outskirts of Saigon, where a terrorist: grenade exploded an hour before the booths . apened, one candidate told reporters:

“This does not bother the lVietnamese people. We have ‘been: suffering for seven years

nounced today or Tuesday. land .we are not afraid of ter-

Nguyen van Thieu, he=-chief--of —-state,--told. _report. ers the election was | ''a bitter

and crushing defeat for the Communists... . a victory for the entire free world... ~ the

|greatest victory ever "won by ithe free Vietnamese.”’ gS More than 90 ‘terrorist _inct- dents were reported | throughout South Viet Nam. o | ; a

Le islatures.. May Meet _ :

ere _| This ‘Fall

PLEDGE “PAILS a

<The~guetrillas’ pledze te ier (CP)—A “wel $6,000. It was believed partially |wreck the elections failed. de- covered by insurance. spite the killing of at ieast 20 special session of the _Nova

The.call was answered by the

leivilians and the wounding of

of violence. .-

The Viet Cong shelled three district towns and military |bases, sniped at voters and/ ~| hurled—g-r-e-n-a-des- sate=polling booths and “into crowds of vot-

Firemen were to. remain on

ers.

About 2,500,000 South Vieina- mese of voting age probably did not even register for the elec- tion, most of them living in a controlled by the Viet

“The high turnout, algo, showed | \that the boycott call made_ by. ;monk. leaders of the country’s [Bu aa was largely ineffee-

t a reception to be held in the |" : The 568 candidates for assem- ear’ future. The Minister will {bly seats were mainly ‘teachers,

also be invited to be guest jlawyers, . military officers and | ; es journalists. speaker when the association! preliminary counts indicated

\ stood six inches taller than the seri Inn Hotel Casion. watcb-

ber y 7 &

Scotia legislature etided Satur. day after a il limiting the: voting” rights of shareholders of Maritime . Tele graph and Telephone. Co.—Ltd., but Finance Minister G. I iSmith said it appbars the, house

will have to meet again ‘before

the end of the year.-

The finance minister told the assembly minutes before it rose that a new. federal-provincial tax-sharing agreement expected to go into effect next Apri! 1 will have’ to receive the ap- proval of the various provincial ‘legislatures.

“I have been informed thaf jit seems to be certain that not only will a budget have to “be ijpassed by the federal govern- jment but also by each of the |provinces - to allow the. agree ment to be completed.” “ Mr. |Smith said. “It appears the pro vincial legislation will have. te

holds its annual meeting Nov. 2. ‘that the turnout in — was |be passed before Dec. 31, 1966.” tion for support of the position |~ SLATE aes a

Clay - Mildenberger

heavyweight boxing match on

It was the sixth the 45-year-old

actor ane the second for. her. (AP Wirephoto)

But they ‘were close to the pe WAS PALE new Minister of Tourist Develop- area of prominent white mourn- | Also looking pale and drawn | ment will be extended by the ers, perhaps in conformity with |was an important mourner in ‘directors to Hon. Mr. Bonnell Verwoerd’s theory ‘that. non- the front row, Ian Smith, leader |————— whites should be “separate but |of the white-supremacist Rho--.- : equal.” -! |desian regime. De Gaulle Sees Verwoerd was stabbed in the! He flew in Saturday to attend neck in Parliament in Cape (a5 a. private citizen, not as an Nuclear Test Town Tuesday. His assassin Official government leader. be- oe : was -a white parliamentary [cause cf protocol problems. PAPEETE, Tahiti _/Reuters) messenger, Dimitri Tsafendas, South Africa hasn't officially | President de Gaulle of France, jrecognized his regime. Perm a Soa a the Peat | 3 : ; ie acific. watched the explosion INSIDE TODAY We have last the man but jof a+ French nuclear device jthank God we have not lost the Sunday over the Mururoa Atoll ‘ Island news 2 feral center, ten oe Ge testing site. } . soaps stasiasiiine Summerside =........... 3 jricke, moderator of the largest FB hag a oe Pe | ROONEY WEDS FOR SIXTH TIME Dee ea, 3 |of the three Dutch Reformed oe fey Editorials 4 {Churches in South Af ee er ae Kings, Queens, City. ei « ALOU GUESS A of bad. weather. During: that] — pint-sized, nervous, Mickey five-foot-one actor as he kiss- ing the Wink... a | No attack from outside es time, de Gaulle was cruising | Rooney was married Saturday ed her twice, hugged her for MOH. ee g [not assassination can destroy jaboard the cruiser’ de Grasse. | at Las Vegas to Margie Lane several seconds;—- and then Comics ae ithe message of the testimony | An earlier announcement Sun-| of Los Angeles, his friend for she cried. Fifteen minutes be- television. Classified 10,111 ,and actions of a man of God. |day said the de Grasse was on| more than eight years. Mrs. fore the wedding Rooney was Marriage. for _ It becomes the possession | station 18 to 28 miles from the| Lane, a 43- year-old divorcee, in the men's lounge of the De-

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