Thirty-two women curlers will compete for the Evening Patriot trophy at Alberton next Tuesday, March 6. Three rinks are entered from Charlotte. | town, two from side

THE EVENING PATRIOT TROPHY

and one each from RCAF, Montague and Alberton. To the winner goes The Evening Patriot trophy, first compet- ed for at Charlottetown in 1960. Members of the winni

rink will each receive special crests while pins will go to all members of the runner- up quartet. All prizes are with the compliments of The Even- ing Patriot.

Engineers Seek Causeway Statement Clarifications

P.E.I. engineering societies | will ask Ottawa for clarification | on two technical points regard- | ing the proposed P.E.I.-N.B.| Causeway.

This decision was reached fol- lowing discussion at a joint meeting of the Association of Professional Engineers of P.E.- I. and the Island.branch of the Engineering Institute of Canada, Wednesday night.

Guest speaker at the meeting was Alex Scott, consulting engin- eer on the new Hillsboro Bridge. Mr. Scott spoke on the Cause- way, the Hillsboro Bridge and suspension bridges.

W.S. Veale presided.

The engineers felt there were @iscrepancies between a state- ment made by Major-General

Ferry Trials Postponed

Sea trials for the new Prince Edward Island ferry MV Con- federation have been postpon- ed until March 7, it was learn- ed yesterday.

The ferry has already under- gone builder’s trials in Halifax harbor and Bedford Basin. CNR officials will conduct the final sea trials before the new ship

H.A. Young, deputy minister of ; age to the causeway, but if there public works, and information | would be only a slight or even contained in tide tables issued |no differential, then the provis- annually by the department of| ion for openings would be quite mines and technical surveys. unnecessary.

Major-General Young said, the; Under these circumstances the engineers maintained, that if the | association felt that some clar- proposed causeway were built | ification is necessary and it was the differential in the tide ele-| agreed that the secretary should vations might be as much as|write Ottawa asking for clarif- seven or eight feet, which could | ication of some of the points cause inundation of certain| discussed. areas.

This, they said, seemed in dir- ect contradiction to tide tables which contain information im- plying that there would be no differential.

The engineers said there were “further disturbed” by a recent 3 500 000 statement of the minister that I ’ the idea of providing openings in the causeway was being con-| More than $3,460,000 was paid sidered. The general opinion was | out in family allowance cheques that if there will be a tidal dif-| in this province last year, and ferential, the provision of open-| an estimated $3,500,000 or more ings would cause excessive rip| will be paid’ out during the tides which might cause dam-j current year, it was learned etc eS Th ke TT | ONCOREy: trem. Sok: dom

| Green, regional director of fam- Speaker Tells | ily allowances and old age sec- 2 : h urity, Tignish Group Of Problems | The last available estimate of tourist revenue was placed

TIGNISH — Miss Jacqueline | approximately $8,500,000

Baby Bonuses Said Nearing

Combined with old age securi- ty payments, the total would |run perhaps to $9,500,000, Mr. Green suggested.

goes into operation between Cape Tormentine, N.B. and Port Borden, P. E. I.

The Confederation, a $3,000,- 000 ship, can carry 70 automo- biles and 300 passengers. She was launched last September.

Cummiskey supervisor of the | which is altvoat tee: and’ ‘abe

- ' ‘ | Retarded Children’s Association | half times the family allowance figure, but slightly less than the

addressed the monthly meeting |

of the Tignish group on Tuesda’ A ;

| evening rae Tiguish Dalton combined family allowance and

| School. old age security (the pension She dealt with the subject of | Ver 70) figures.

| the general feelings of the pub- |

aae|lic towards the retarded child. |

Assumption Soc.

In her talk Miss Cummiskey |

} dealt with understanding and| charity, that people must show | these children. |

| Miss Cummiskey was thanked |

RIEFS

erent area cen ene

HAS ACCIDENT

James Gallant, Medf ord, Mass., and a former resident of Tignish, met with a very painful accident while working a@t his construction job, having been hit by a huge tree pushing him directly into a power saw. Over 50 stitches were required to close the cuts on his face ‘and head. Most of Mr. Gallant's family reside in the Tignish area.

TIGNISH CARD PARTY

A card party for the Tignish Home and School Assn. was held at the home of Mrs. William MacLeod on Tuesday evening. Highest score of the evening ‘went to Mrs. Bloice Ellis. Con-

;| mission, gave a-talk on the Co

‘Co-op Housing Discussed At Tignish Meet

TIGNISH — William Meggt- son, Charlottetown represent- ing the P.E.I. Housing Com-

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op house building plan at Tig- nish High School auditorium on Tuesday evening.

Thirty-five listened with inter. est as Mr. Meggison explained in detail the steps to be taken in order to start this project. At | least seven interested in this | project at the meeting wanted | | another meeting to be called as soon as possible to get the group organized and to start study

groups.

In Mr. Meggison’s talk he stated no less than five groups would be recognized, The idea|

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Meets In Tignish

TIGNISH — The Assumption Society held its meeting in the Legion Community Centre at Tignish. Auhjn Gallant, presi- dent welcomed the members, and guests, which included Jean Boudreau, district manager, and Alyre Gallant of Summerside.

Mr. Boudreau addressed the meeting on the Society's schol- arship fund (Caisse Universi- taire). He told the meeting that $25,000 has been disbursed to

students on Prince Edward Is-

land from the scholarship fund since 1907.

Mr. Boudreau also installed the officers for the coming year, assisted by the president.

Mrs. Alma (Boute) McCormic spoke on the importance of speaking French and stressed the need for it to be spoken will. The French dictionnaries, pur- chased by the society will be dis- tributed at a later meeting. ENS

LIVESTOCK

MONTREAL (CP) — Calves were $1 to $2 lower, cows and heifers steady to 50 cents higher and hogs steady to 50 cents lower on the Montreal livestock markets this week. Trading was generally moderate under a fair demand

Receipts this week were: 1, 320 cattle, 1,057 calves,

week cattle receipts were 1,547. Choise steers sold at 24.75- 25.25, good 23.75 - 24.25, medium 21-23.75 and common 14-21. Good heifers were 2 - 21.35, aay um 19.25-20 and common 12-

Good cows sold at 16.50-17.78, medium 15.50-16.75, common 14- 15.75 and canners and cutters 5-

| is to do as much of the work .as| 14

Good bulls were 18.75 - 21.50 and common and mediurn 12.50-

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KENSINGTON — During re- cent geological surveys a fern frond found at Miminigash is es- timated to be over 250 million years old— petrified wood found on the farm of John Rog- erson, Crapaud, is of approxim- ately the same age, B. Graham Rogers, told the Kensington board of trade, among many other interesting things, during his address at the regular meeting Wednesday evening. “Science is advancing so fast that things considered uselsss yesterday are valuable today,” he told his audience.

Mr. Rogers, chairman of the geological surveys, was. intro- duced by the new president, Ed- son Rayner, and began his talk with a brief background his- tory of the beginning of surface

in Tignish, Kinkora and Crap- aud, with the largest in Spring Valley and the second largest at

French River, both near Ken- K

sington.

MANY PROBLEMS

Most exploration .has been done on the farm of Fred Prof- itt, Spring Valley, where de- posits were found to contain up to 73 per cent lime on the top layer, falling to 32 per cenit in deeper layers. The speaker said that many problems have yet to be solved such as a detailed analysis of how the lime can be gotten out at the least cost, ex- amination of the grinding pro- cess, examination of the extent of deposit, study of wear aud tear on machinery, study of transportation costs.

A deposit on the farm of George Howatt, French River, will also be examined with the

survey, The speaker said the pre- sent survey started in

1953 under an act passed in 1920 which allowed the government to take over all deposits, the profits to be used for certain designated purposes.

FIRST SURVEY

Imperial Oil made the first survey, the guest speaker stat- ed, and the Island was divided into licensed areas. Other com- panies carried out later sur- veys. Oil seepage was found at Wellington but not in sufficient quantity to warrant develop-

terest of his audience at a high

finds and showed samples of several of these. In addition to the fern frond and petrified

sunken forests over 1000 years old had been discovered in the eastern part of the Island in peat bogs.

He went on to stir the imagi- nation as he cited the potential wealth in the development of products from the Island’s peat bogs and the numerous puroos- es for which the silica sand, found in many parts of the prov-

interest to the Kensington aud- ience was the story of lime. Mr. Rogers told of the search for lime of commercial quality and |

Glenn Is Given N.Y. Welcome

NEW YORK (AP) — John Glenn rode in triumph through Manhattan Thursday, signalling thumbs up to the tumult of mil- lions of New Yorkers cheering

ment. The speaker kept the in-|

pitch as he described valuable |}

wood Mr. Rogers said that two Ke

hope that it too may be worth developing.

Claude Smith, director of town planning gave an interest- ing outline of improvements that have been made and others that should have been made on the rural scene. Mr. Rogers and Mr. Smith were thanked by Morris Caseley on behalf of the board,

The business of the meeting included brief reports by the chairmen of various commit- tees,

legislature paid $1,500 last December for their four-day special session, instead of $500, Lorne Monk- ley, PC-5Sth Prince, said as he participated in the Throne Speech debate yesterday. Reading from the provincial statutes, the Summerside man said the act provides for pay- ment of $1,000, plus an amount $500 for expenses which shail

Island Hoas Grade Well

Island hogs marketed in Jan- uary of this year showed a per- centage increase in grade A carcasses over January, 1961.

Provincial livestock director Lou Roper said that grade A’s rose from 53.6 per cent to 58 per cent. The number of hogs marketed last January was 5,- 640, compared to 5,847 in Janu- ary, 1961

GRADE B’S DOWN

Mr. Roper said that grade B’s dropped last January from 35.9 per cent to 32.7 per cent, and grade C’s dropped from 2.3 per cent in January, 1961, to .8 per cent last January.

Commenting on the statistics Mr. Roper said ‘‘this shows that growers can produce more grade A hogs, providing they watch the weight of hogs more careful- ly and pay more attention to the finish of the animals before | marketing. |

“It has been evident that there | are still too many overweight |

| hogs being delivered to packing Victoria

plants. This could be eliminated by watching weights more close-| ly.”

OBITUARY

MRS. PHILLIP REID A wide circle of friends and relatives were deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Mrs. |

ince, may be used. Of special |/

quantity, of deposits being found |

| Phillip Reid on December 28, | 1961, at the PEI. Hospital,

The late Mrs. Reid was born in Charlottetown, P.E.I,, the | daughter of the late Robert and Sadie Ward (MacCallum)

She was a member of the Sal- vation Army and a regular at- tendant while health permitted.

She leaves to mourn her hus- | band, son Merrill, daughter Carol Ann, a her sister, Mrs, Pres-

| béetons PANY. Ne variong’ $06 ton Diamond (Elsie) and bro-

f n ther Ambrose. all of Charlotte- | young Canadian soldiers now | town taking a six month general : military training course at The Depot, Royal Canadian

ON COURSE

Gunner Bill Millman of Al-

The funeral was largely at- tended, held from the Salvation Army Citadel, on Sunday, Dec-

his flight around the world through space. |

The grinning, freckled Marine | lieutenant colonel sat atop the | back seat of an open convert. | ible as the ‘crowd went wild. Spectators repeatedly broke through police lines to try to reach Glenn.

It was a perfect winter day— clear, cold, and sunny with a blue sky filled with a snow of paper—ticker-tape, confetti and shredded newsprint — that con tinued to fly long after the pro- cession had passed by.

LANDS AFTER CRASH

Glenn’s plane landed at La Guardia Airport shortly after the worst single - plane crash ever to occur in the U.S. From the airport could be seen a thin trail of blue smoke in the dis- tance, marking the spot where all 95 aboard the airliner died.

To many, the crash seemed a sober reminder of the mag- nitude of Glenn’s accomplish- ment in his 81,000-mile three- orbit journey around the world Feb. 20.

Artillery in Camp Shilo, Man- itoba (NDP Photo)

ember 31st, at 2 p.m, The ser-

were conducted by Brigadier L. A. Hicks, The funeral were under the ‘Uuteliffe Home).

She was tenderly laid to rest

arrangements direction of A, (Cutcliffe Funeral

Ice Tightens Grip In Nfld.

vice at the Citadel and grave | 28

| colder;

By JACK PICKETTS | ST. JOHN’S, Nfld. (CP) —| Ice wrapped Newfoundland in a

in the People’s Cemetery, The floral tributes were many and beautiful,

dium 26-29, common 17-26, and grassers 14-16,

Common lambs sold at 14-17 and sheep 10-12.

At the west-end market, grade A hogs were 26.50 and sows 20- 21. At the east-end market, grade A hogs were 2% - 2%.50 with most at 26 plus 80 cents each. Sows were 19-20 with some at 19 plus 80 cents each.

tightening grip Thursday as northeast winds pushing heavy | arctic ice forced local slob and | pancake ice hard against the shores.

St. John’s Harbor was plugged and shipping stalled as vessels were held inside some ports and outside others, una- ble to move any distance.

The federal icecreaker Sir Humphrey Gilbert was unable to get into St. John’s through heavy ice that extended about 50 miles east of the harbor and was solid all the way down the Avalon coast to Cape Race.

The CNR ferry William Car- son, running across the Cabot Strait between Port aux Basques, Nfid., and North Syd- ney, N.S., gave up trying to keep a regular schedule be- cause of the ice.

The Carson, which normally makes the round trip in a day, was making only six or seven miles an hour most of the time and was taking up to three days for the round trip.

CARD OF THANKS |

The family of the late Mrs. | Phillip Reid wish to thank all | who sent flowers, telegrams, also neighbors and friends who in any way assisted in our recent | sad bereavement. |

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P.E.I. Rural Beautification Society

Prize Lists for the 1962 competitions are now available on application.

For copies’ write to the Secretary, Rural Beautification Society, Box 1194, Charlottetown. Entries for the regular contests and for the new Tourist Association Competition close April 24, 1962. No extension of date of entry for these

Entries to the Perfection Dairy Barn Competi- tion, which is open to any producer of milk or

hands of the Secretary prior to April 30, 1962, to be considered. If interested in any or all of these era aga a tinmcametmae

ISLAND NEWS PAGE Members Are Said Entitled

Alberton and West Prince County 1O Full Pay For Session .

2 The Guardian, Charlottetown, Fri., Mar. 2, 1962.

History Of Geological Surveys Here Outlined

Mr, Monkley explained . that his pay stops at the plant where he works, when he leaves to at- tend a session of the legislature.

Mr. Monkley said that his $500 cheque was returned, with the notation that he would not accept it as full payment.

(Mr. Monkley told this paper in the press gallery later, that he had the cheque had made back of it.)

Expressing strong felling on the subject, Mr. Monkley said that the members might be kept in session sometime for three months or more, if something unusual developed. In that case, he said they would still only get the $1,500.