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LADY 86 MAKES PRIZE QUILT

Mrs. Sam Dunning. French River still malnea beautiful oiiilts at 86. This Log Cabin pattern was started April lot and she finished it late in July. She had it sold for 330 before she came to the Pro- vincial Exhibitlon but she could have gotten $50 for it

Record Cold, Dampness Costs Atlantic Area Money

By DLA WARRINGTON

HALIFAX (CF) Unless there's an abrupt change 1962 may be written off in the At- lantic provinces‘ as the year without a summer.

This season of record cold and dampness oat ldenis of the region thousands of dollars in lost business and wages. not to'mentlon personal discomfort. Only’ fine. warm weather well into the fall is likely to recoup their losses.

Farmers. builders. highway contractors. tourist resort oper- tutors. and the wholesale and re- tail trade are feeling the pinch.

Cool. damp weather has per- sisted since June. .luly this year as the, dullest on recor at Halifax. the wettest ever at Moncton. the coldest in 18 years at St. Jo Nfld.

There was a ray of hope Wed- nesday when the Halifax weather office forecast line weather for the next. two days. Temperatures have been below normal here every day except three since July 1.

FARMERS HIT

Farmers in all four Atlantic provinces have been hard The strawberry crop was 25 to 50 per cent below normal. cut- ting the demand for pickers. Some farmers lost part of their hay crop because of continued rain and flooded fields.

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PH. Mass. (APl—An eight-man bandit gang armed

machine - guns looted a United States mail truck Tues- day night and escaped wit V $1,500,000——the biggest cash rob- .

ry the .. . The haul surpassed the $1,- 219.05’) firinlfls robbery in Bos-

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The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, to which the mall truck money was consigned from Cape Cod banks. reported the amount taken.

The Federal Reserve made it clear the money was its respon- 3 libility and that the Cape Cod- member banks would stand no losses "on shipments made in compliance w i t h applicable

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The holdup team. well re- hearsed nnd acting with. preci- sion and speed. was spear- headed by a man in police uni- form. It was he who caught the two men on the mall truck off

guard.

As the mail truck proceeded along route 3. a bypass in Ply- mouth onhcayée Cfizl, a car s b ‘t. 0t car appar- Mrs. Eleanor Stewart. 19 Es- eiitlly set xiii deihur sign: behind her Street. Charlottetown plac- the truck to tree moto ed second and Mrs. Andrew Johnswrne. mother of Lieut- _t-he holdup was in progress- Col. r:.w. Johnstone of 3.... »ca¢n;hg;to;lu;;el=§;=;fm§gg;;"§§ llnston and of the iormorof the breakdown lane of the high- Mayor of Charlottetown. Ed- iway and a second car parked win Johnston. was third. inearby at an °n.5le_m‘kmg ‘t

. appear to the mail truck guards that there had been an accident.

FLAGGED DOWN As the mail truck approached, the make-beli ve poli man sig- nalled the truck to halt. When ! Patrick Schena. the ruck ‘ driver. slowed down. other gun- men moved into the roadway ; with menacing machine-guns. Schena and his fellow guard. River‘ William F. Barrett, were tied

aevaraltimesduring the show from admirin ltora. Next time. friends her.

is urwd from using the highway while she should put higher prices mi her masterpieces which are i. all completely hand sewn. ; y The quilt won first place in 1 the class for ladies 75 years ; y and over. A 93-year old lady. I

rector of the National Employ-‘Nova Scotia's Lallave ‘ . ment Service. says e slowlwas 179 per cent of normal. On gllud klolgifd lllltf_ltt}ll1€ 1'88!‘ Of the‘ growth of_ fruit and vegetables the Leprcau River in cw, C - me 0 8 KI-lumen go delayed the opening of process- Brunswick it was 288 per cent. 1 hi the ‘Tl-‘Ck ah‘? made three; dllfl plants that normally pm-‘ A few people reaped unex-51°95 °“ ‘h’ h'5h“”’{ h°"‘h' vide work for hundreds of cx- L pected benefits from the unsea- tra hands at this season. ysornable weather. Fuel Th N in Sc tia Trav l Bui'- noterlsdm ‘ in an iepfm ‘(stop of :4 pa,-ihouseholders started ‘ tcelnt in ttoilirist tiraffric. Mo:’tltho- °hB¢°_‘: daulf: - Id d H‘ _ ,8 The roblsiegy occuri:d Srountd! es. moes an anspor ion est cs e co an e rain‘ p.m. c ena an arret services report below - normal coastal residents were lost inireached a telephone to notify business. Many tourists ruljfog much of the time. St. .5 police around 10 .in. short their visits'because of the f John’s. Nfld. bad fog on all butt hena accompanied Postal weather. ! sev _ Soft-drink and ice - creamy got only 156 hours of sunshine 3‘ ‘her 9°11“ ‘ll :_:‘t5raléll_’!ll‘;llP “:1 plants suffered ii slump in compared with a previous rec-. . _ . sales. Dealers in summer cloth- ord of 197. }l{§l‘]1do'l‘$'l‘h- “feighl me (:3. i‘.‘.‘.‘..'3’.°.§.‘“.‘.‘..§""L‘°.5§.§3i$"‘33x‘§i' 5...§".f.‘Zi§li§.§'2'..?.i?.i’.1l"r...‘I"‘£.o{’§iii“ 3”‘ "“°“' T"°” “S” """"" - - - t t .t hi ‘- The weather slowed construe-lhad a record low maximumloflgg, 5u,‘i':n_au omo lea New tlon work. giving idle time to.temperat.ure of 61 degrees last. The possibility of finding fin- thousands. Highways depai-t- Friday. on July 3 the mercurygerprlnts appeared remote as: ment spokesmen say road work' hli‘t a record low of 35 degrees the gunmen all wore white« is up to '75 per cent behind, t ere. v schedule with bulldozers and_ heavy equipment fre-: mud. g alsoj

“‘°“‘” Mt. Herbert Eihibitor

war . _ Each t.ime they tossed out to‘ ggezg confedei-ates_ some of the sealed -‘ furnaces. bags_ containing the money. I

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hampered lumbermen and pulp- Sterling Wood. Mt. Herbert donald College. St. Anne de l.

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wood cutters. COAL AFFECTED . The rain even affected the; coal market. With plenty of wa-; ter available. hydro powerl plants c led some of the elec-9 trical load usually handled ,by steam-powered generators. my the penior and grand re. 3enevu¢_ Quebec was we“ The federal resources departn more championships in Dual pleased with the show. noted. men! 88318 the July l'l"l°" 0“ PIIPPOSE Sllofl-ll01‘ll-B ¥eSl—eI‘=l8)' there were some fine animals. Provincial Exhibition with (Continued on page 5 Col. 2l the first-place mature cow in —-j-‘T--—— ' , Limewood Jessie Wave. P I The Mt. Herbert breeds took be five ted ‘ribbons in the closing‘ enus r0 l dasyt of thcrfltwo-day’ k ‘ S - 'nn:ey u1-ry 4014 ed . thingcseifi; senior and reserve It . hi "3 *0 W‘ with the CAPE CANAVERAL. Fl _i J'"“'’‘' ‘mm °h‘mPl°h3hh’ h° tAP)—An intricate Mariner ll‘ had won the previous day. He cecnfl is hem readied '°°”°dtbV:‘:;d‘V ‘Vi: 1;? Shh‘ here for a 115-day journey to com. cow as! said. This could be increaced ‘W for dry four-year 035- 3el<‘ii:ckm¢t)i'f ohntheex't,:iI;ie\icvelI".lSs. ron MlacPhcc. Elm program of interplanetary ex- pioratlon. III- The National Aeronautics and

Orville singer of. Toronto called for more research into

um‘ ‘mm llhllflcflllelll 0‘ the toll motley space Administration reports it

3': In the larger! don :1 has corrected trouble which ra- awa premix P001101‘ aultedtnfall ofthellfari punter exhibitor banners. at Ilauiiching Jiii; 2: and in-eiiiyr do some of the others. again soon. The 1 ch. Judge L_.H. Hamilton’. Mac-ring is expected next week.

Boioizivives often were disap- frozai

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female Leicester animals. A Moan and

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be champion market lamb tw Guy Thompson.

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5‘! Fore Heroine which he bought

en days last month. I-lalifaxi'h1SPe¢l0l‘S Wednesday. Slfiflillfl ‘ b

rersi-—Princess Anne celebrated

Ch'ships Awarded S l

lsnoar SHORTS / DRAW PROTEST

VIRGINIATOWN. Ont. ICPV Women’s shorts have become Roman Catho-

On- has

asked the local council to do something about it

I. Eric Hurry. West Royalty. in the ring with six first prizes ‘ . e to McGariy ‘

won the Premi r Breeder’: among the females and senior ' ” . .

award in the Guernsey ring groups. .‘ iggvnflglfid Tgcidag‘ '"ghkt‘dR?"' . yulmday Harold Palm" JUN 0 i a by - law“ flbibiecidiiige shotilt. -1 ‘mi $°“5' K°"’m3t°" "wk ti" 1 R AWMFD ' shorts. The council could not : Premier Exhibitors banner. A chest of silver donated by» define how short ..Shm_t.. is‘ l (The breeders award goes to Semples Pharmacy for the. so it [en the decision to the the man who has won most mo- junior champion female was; beholden

ney with animals he has bred presented to Roy Younker by; Wong who consider, himself. and the exiiibitor's N_clson Ball, Canada department? scanty clothing a pubyic of. IW8l‘d 8088 an Wit 0.‘ agriculture. ? nee can complain to the has won the most money. regard- Mr. Younker also received an‘ police. who will consider

electric kettle from Cecil .l.' the Criminal Stewart. president of the Exhib-i ition Association which it awar- ded to the owner of the senior champion female. ,

Goldenview Farms. owned by_ Owen Younker and Son. pre-T sented a trophy to the 4-H, Club members plai.in:: in an: open Guernsey class, which went;

to Bert Palmer. Kensington. . Other first place winners ye.\.- ‘run so court Bars

less of their breeding.) charges under

Top honors were pretty well divided yesterday. with Younker, Kingston‘ taking the senior and grand female cham- pionships and also the reserve senior and reserve grand. He won the grand with Fraserdale

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from the late Jock Fraser when he worked for several years in Ontario. Junes Lucky Lady gave him the reserve ribbons.

Mr. Yoiinker had a good day

Princess Mo rk-s 12th Birthday

BALLATER.

ierday included Ernest F‘. . (Continued on page 3, col. 2i Rallway Job Cufs i CHICAGO rAP) —— The U.S.I I . . circuit court of appeals barred} the American railroads Wed- economies which would elimin- nesday from effecting drastic; I ate thousands of jobs.

e ruin in effect. calls off,

a Eannounced union plans to strike;

today-—the day which rail man-y

agemcnt had set as the startingi

date of the economies.

Keith Boswell and Sons’. Vic-ytoria Gem 2nd. a l}\‘VI')-_\/]f‘al‘ fflifi ;P|an'e wreckage 1 toria won the Premier Breeders: heifer that topped t e c ass or‘ ; Award in the Ayrshire ringiher age in milk. -‘Found In here yesterday with their Lea-1 Raedale Lolly Marie took the; PRINCE GEORGE. B.C. (CPlr lands herd and Almon W on d‘ reserve senior and reserve grand‘_.RCMP hen» said Wednesday! and Sons. Marshfield took homeifemale ribbon for Andrew B. ythe wreckage of a light plane] the premier exhibitor’: qawip-d. and Fred T. MacRae after she y missing in the Northwest Terri-, (The breeder's award goes ’ to had topped an exceptionallyytories for seven months asi

man who has won the most strong class of mature cows in y be-cn_found, No trace was found: points with animals he bred milk. The Racdale herd also;of the pilot. J himself. The exhibitors award_had a good day in the ring; A ground par-t_v accidentallyr goes to the man who has won g after encountering heavy going stumbled across the wreckage;

e most points. regardless ofion Tuesday. . week and found a diary whether the animals were bred. The grand champion cow is R which indicated the pilot. miss- y him. granddaughter of the old “Roy-ring since Jan, 5, waited by the

The Boswell's topped theirlal Victoria" cow the Boswell's;p1ane for five days before set- show winnings with the covetedlhad in their stable for almostlting out on oi. Z Senior and grand championshipl20 years. She was never classi-. Blake MacKenzie. 47. of F:d‘i ribbons won by Lealands Vic- 1 fled until she was 16 years. when ‘ monton was on , a flight from :

.she placed second at the Royal. ysmith River to Mickie Lake in? and classified Excellent with in § the Northwest Territories when percentage grading of 93.7, thelhis plane crashed. Police said‘ highest in Canada at the time‘ the diary indicated he was n yfor a cow her age. Gem 2nd is.‘ injured. '

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Royal Victoria has been dead.

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Joint Effort Urged By Britain And U.S.

LONDON (AP)—World lead-y why the Soviets should not now ers hailed the successful end gflfy qlllilckly be ill 8 9081501150 Wednesday of the long voyage dspaic America” 593’ ,5,“ '. of the Soviet space twins. A mes m the same munch

H . ‘ Lovell urged that the United British expert said the Russians States and Russia get together now are so far ahead in space

in a joint attempt to conquer that the United States is un- the moon. likely to catch up in the next "More than ever." he said-. 10 Yellrs. _ "one is appalled by the foolish- Radio stations in Europe

_ ness of these two countries at- broke into regular broadcasts tempting a common problem in’ to give the news of the landing ‘ '

_ competition." of Ma]. Adrian Nikoloyzv and‘ From Washington. President Lt.-Col. Pavel Popovich after Kennedy messaged his congra- ' historic flight in twin '-"

tulations to Premier ' spaceships said to weigh more chev. than eight tons each. Previous But in London former U.S. Soviet manned space craft have President Eisenhower disagreed been listed at about five tons.

with the theory that the Rus- The space feat brought out

sians “have a space lead or headlines in Western Europe ‘ " along with the praise of West-

thai there is a ga . Eisenhower told a press con- ern leaders, but there was some. uneasiness expressed. ‘

ference the Russians engage in “The A m e r i c a n scientific

."all kind s of spectaculars"

while the United States has I technology is strained to the ut-V but in spite oft hat, not‘

steady program that will uni" most day lead to the moon. only has very little progress‘ been made in reducing the lee-i, IN“.;RRUP.T.s SHOOT , " way but we now have these on-: Puma Mmster Macmman 1”‘ ther astonishing events of the‘ lermpted. his grouse ‘boon?’ last few days_»- Said Sir Bemvacation on the Yorkshire “rd Love“, director of Bm_;moors to cable congratulations

ain’s Jodrell Bank radio astron-_§ t° .K'““5h°h°" "9" the 8113‘ omy ,,bsen,atm.y_ Iachievement and on the safe

*return of the two astronauts.” VENUS PROBE NEXT‘? H .

An official West German c said the Russians might spokesman told a press confer- follow up their twin launching y ence in Bonn the Soviet space, any day now with another un-=flight was "a great scientific manned rocket probe of Venus. . achievement." " ~ - - I thin one must say. Premier Erlander of Sweden that this Soviet exploit has‘haiiea the night as "another added 3 MW and agonizing Ill-.lmportant step toward the use mension to the world’: trou- ‘ of space for peaceful purposes". h1.l‘5»" I-0V!’-11 ¢0lllil'lll€d~ [Be cabled congratulations to ‘'1 think I could best illustrate! Khrushchpv,

this by saying that two years In Paris, the mass-ciri-ulation ago the Soviet Union shot down daily France Solr broke out I 11-2 (Spy plane) which led to huge headlines saying: "They a_ tremendous international cri-rhave landed." Apparently no 5- .5F‘renchman needed to be told “l can see no reason at alilwho “they" Were.

Cosmonciughts Are Greete-cl By Cheers Of Countrymen

MOSCOW lReulersl—«Russia's twin cosmonauts came safely

the most exhaustive series oi . medical tests ever given space back to earth Wednesday after travellers t determine the ef- their epic flights around the ‘ fects of thei record - breaking globe and were greeted by the" happy tears of their parents and the exultant cheers of the‘

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he’ . 12”‘, bmhday Wednesday . for a number of cars but bti . _ n ices l4 . that hoih Nllmlayev. with 64 or- with_ a picnic on the moors ad- 5 was he]. (Iaughtersythat Wm, H“. ::_I::§n(::.‘::E'e“?_t' __ M5 .Soviet people. bits and 90 hours of space travel joining Balmoral Castle. rpmgeny of dam class here (.‘aSsif‘ied I "45 I new space lierocs-—3Ii- to. his c _'. and Popovich. She was accompanied by herryestemay_ finance Markéi; 15 year - old May. Andrian Nilrol- with «is orbits and 70 hours un- mother. Queen Elizabeth. ‘an ‘: udgc Mex Lamond {arm _ t ~ - - - ' ' '- 11 rayev and 32-year-old Lt.-Col. der his hell. were in perfect two brothers. Princeymana ET for S (. mama.‘ MP. C0"“°5; '93 “"5 - - - - - - - -- ' }Pa.ve‘l'R. Popovicli—_made “pin- condition.

Charles and Prince Andrew. all‘shire gram‘ éedford * “-8 : W_0m0|lS D839 -- - ypo nt landings within six min- Tass said the two men, who vacationing at the Royal Fam- . .' ' ‘ " K_inS5 Co" ' ‘ ' ‘ ' '- ~ - yutes of each_ other in a desig- grew space beards. ate "an ily's nearby -summer home. iw“ ‘lehghied Wlth the -‘h°“’- City. Queens jnated area in the lxazakhstan enormous water melon" and '3 “Ned that there has bee“ 5 Edit ‘als ert were given a spontaneous "ta.

Prince Philip. who was sail- H g . ‘ 1;; his acm yood mm from y grcatumprovement here in ‘the England to Scotland. missed thetlast five or six years. particu- celebration. He will join that larly in the young stock. He was family next week. i (Continued on page 3 Col. -ll

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According ln Tass. the offi- cial Soviet news agency. they landed inside their space cap-

hle-top“ reception shortly after they landed.

The reception. Tass reported. was held in front of a house close by the landing area. A ta- ble was brought out of the build- ing and e two men mounted it to receive the cheers of the scientists. technicians. journal- ists and sports officials who had watche the descent

es. Both Riissia‘.s earlier astron- auts wcrc ejected from their‘ capsules at a low level and floated to earth by parachute. but the Tass announcement of Wednesday's landing said:

" . . The spaceships Vostok

Ill. w’ h cosmonaut Andrien Tass correspondent ‘mtg,-.

Nikolayev aboard. and Vostok viewed the pair inside the house

‘IV. ' cosmonaut P. R. where t.hcy were resting. have been COOLER IN SPACE

Popovich aboard. ande in the predetermined area.

“The spaceships Vostok ill and Vostok IV have landed nor-‘ malty“

The room was hot and Pop- - ovich said "my word. in space , it was so much more comfort- ' ablc." Nikolaycv said "yes. and

ere were fewer people and less noise." .

Popovich said "the main re- A suit of our flight is that every- thing cnded well and that the program has been fulfilled and }

The two men came down south of Karaganda. an indus- trial town in Kazakhstan. at So- viet republic in central Asia larger than the whole of West-

ern Europe. and were believed that we are the first in the to have been flown to the cos- world to achieve a paire modrome at Baikonour. 350 fl‘ ht in a word. every-

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thing is fine." Later they talked with Soviet

.Premier Khrushchev by plioha

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they made in -space by radio

miles away. from where they. were apparently launched into space last weekend.

After several days of rest they were expected to undergo

- VANCOUVER (CF) — A for- mer Polish air ace and his three passengers were foun Iafe Wednesdity beside the wreckage of a light plane 300 miles north of Vancouver. 303 Forest Service aircraft credited with 211 enemy ai!~ _ the downed Mooney 20A craft during the second World no in bushland south of Nah- War “

as La 0. in Tweedsmulr Park. A forfestry helicopter res-

b The plane's pilot is Jan Fal- |k0WSki, 50. a Goodwood. “. advertising executive and flying instructor who formerly wal commanding officer of the Po- lish adron. aunll