WEATHER

Snowflurries. clearing late in afternoon: northwest winds 25, gusts to 40, dimin- ishing to 20. Low-high 8 and 20.

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‘T n . u 0. —i-— ""‘C‘ ‘ 4—-j:——- VOL. LXXVI. N0. 323 "" """ ot“"°'__"“._°‘: rm °.'_"m._ CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, MONDAY. DECEMBER 16, 1963. "Maia" SEVEN CENTS 18 PAGES.

Damage Tops $10 Million

In Los Angeles Dam Break

l . . lMan Fatally Hurt Warning Cul tln Souris Crash Casualty Toll

enter hospita fvu.!'tlle{'

sounls — Augustus Adolph] Mr. MacDonald was treatedfihrgtig-'5 °""""m"°" °" ‘"5

, request as a result of a te 0t; at the scene by Dr. Peter iriant-my am-idem two weeks ago, ‘and Dr. Edward Kassner. I-Tel‘

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L0S.ANGE~I1ES IAPl—Disas- The “acute devastation" was r officials counted 259 homes confined to a section bounded be-and apartment buildings de- by Hauser Blvd.. La Brea Ave.. _..nd.5lr0yP<l 01‘ d 8m_88ed Satur- Rodeo Road and the reservoir. day by the bursting of a mid- city dam and said Sunday it D‘?-ASTER AREA ,_ m__ was 3 ' 3010 no more than Federal and state officials de- inithrehttves were St. 'clarcd the section it disaster of the break which Area. qual_ify‘mtz residents for spewed mud and water (we, a ‘reconstruction or remodeling four-square-mile area of 9,000 homes with 16.500 residents re- mained a mystery but early in- yestigation pointed to two lik- ‘eh, causes, .telephone service as flood we- A recent series of mthhr tiers spread over a wide area earthquakes and the possible ,b‘~’l°“' the 1'95ErV°1r- lcollapse of subterranean oil. Undetermined thousands of t pools pumped dry by wells near ‘lP€l‘50nS. . Warned by P690115 09 tthe 50ehe_ ta leak in the dam. hours he- . terraced hillside below a ‘ fore it burst, fled to spend the -reservoir high in the Baldwintnight at homes of relatives or 1111-15 was swept clean of homes tin evacuation cattres set up in

;us MacDonald. 28. nephew I _ ! Lieutenanbcovernor w'J‘ May] was then taken to Souris Hospi- boti'mh;t‘er1l’res2ill3r £3]: flit-insm .D°“5ld» b°C‘““' “'9 I-‘l"“d.‘ 32‘ lal by Perry’: ambulance and"hasn't seemed to have improved, nd highway fatality this year died shortly before 8 p.m. Satur-i-‘is much as or the 1 when his small foreign car col-_ day. :Premler's sister Mrs.’ Jean H lided with the rear of an oil‘ Dr. Allan MacMillan. coron-En Wnn Werehd :0 involved true in Souris late Saturday. er, has set the inquest date tort‘ 9 Same 309‘ 9!‘- efternoon. I Dec. 30 at 7.30 p.m. at City Hall ‘ ll “'35 ‘W ,"°'_“""’-d-dil:f"”""°'- Mr. MacDonald had been pro«l Mr. MacDonald was the son;3;)“ uh? P"°m‘°”' °‘’‘‘ "m was lceeding west on Main Street int of Mrs. Velerius " " “t 59” ‘Souris about 5 o'clock Saturday and the late Mr. MacDonald of ‘when he collided with the rear Winsioe. S I of a parked_oil truck owned byt His remains will be restingsnow S * .’.'”rI.'i§'.r‘3t'reLoii"’i.‘i.‘l' tl’2°t§.f.’r‘"."o’1 ’r1‘.‘.’..e"i§.‘t"”r'r‘.‘i$‘.. ii. ‘t':‘r‘?.ll§{‘t’2f§f.°..’ 1 Hr ceived no maior damage. lThe funeral will be held at The truck operator was John Alexis Church, Rollo Bay at 10‘.

. .' , d . t A :*;“;S.°:“::".:: °*~:.'::::“.::i.:::“:.y..*".*:r;::i....lN.S. reas time of the impact and was notl ed by the Souris detachmenhll

RCMP. -

Not those homes were _ damaged, but most were de- prived of electricity. gas and

waters. The building was com- pletely surrounded by water

THIS was use scene at the Guard helicopter F swooped intersection of i ve.

and Rodeo Drive in Ins An- d°“'“ t° ' r°°f mp '° Did‘ "'9 geles Saturday as I Coast people stranded there by flood-

aiter a reservoir broke. (AP

W trephoto) .

Parliament lAt A Glance

HALIFAX top» snow

I ' 1 injured. T —some costing up to $100.0il0—- llthree high Schools. a n a a S u C e a r S ranging from two to six inches as if by a giant mop. A wall oil Sunday hundreds made" their By THE CANADIAN PRESS the Maritimes slowed .water 30 feet high and 100 feet ;way through police cordons ft‘a‘fflC early Sunday 85 l‘ll*8ll 3 across roared down the canyon, ; around pol:

May Move From France

SATURDAY. Dec. 14. 1963 Immigration Minister Fa- vreau said his department hopes to attract well over 100,000 im- migrants to Canada next year.

{Canada Gives Up Efforts

On Commonwealth Role

winds and cold temperatures ad- ‘tumbling houses and cars like .ded to the hazards of driving. ltoys.

Southern Cape Breton and the ‘t Only the fact that police had Halifax area were hardest hit lm0l'8 than an nollr in try‘ with six inches of snow and a '.¢V3C”3l° the 3'53 b°1°“’ me

to ‘below the dam. told

e lthrough the debris for valuables 1 hind in their flight.

. R. C. Elliott, who lived just reporters: 1“There's just a big hole . . .

. . . CARMAN CUMMING of seats on a purely geographic i . -, ‘ kg t the death toll Lmv house is gone . . we have 5 JOSEPH M, SWEEN I 1 t M _ _ , P ._ ‘ He also forecast amendments BY _ , 20 t 30. 1 _ .0, wind that .reservolr_ p _ _ t. ' y . c - - t§:h5"s°u;:1nt,s1_°r t“°?,°"‘"I,d§, Wm“-E -resident Kennlmy.‘ as designed to bring a new look to UNITED NATIONS ‘CP’- fba5'5- Canada‘ Australia and t '"'°t"t',, Ourvtstbtttt tn ‘from rising much higher. _ nothing . . . the swlmmlngpooi PARIS (cppnmnce Mmw at heposaw (ho illdi at‘: th lsa5s"'at‘°" “G "‘° 5‘3“"‘3 Y‘ indian legislation. encouraging Acme under heavy Pr9SSUl‘€r‘N9“’ Zealand are 10 he “la-SS°d :3 ""5 °" ° y l Even so. 15 persons who did .15 all that ls left . - - we ter Hellyer confirmed Sunday ca") elthe MOSCOW 9651-ban treaty In initiative and selhres onsibm Canada has given up on an at-[under "West European and oth- ‘ '9'” -hot get out 11, time were in. climbed the hm hhhv, and , French would allow storage of ;Augu5t_ P Y- tempt to re we a or 3.. ‘ However there W," M s"I_. . . V t hed th. 0 __ t that the problem of Canadas nuclear warheads mt subject tn ,_ Eugene Rheaume (PC __ 00 pulse ‘ _ th e;r.h C d_ d l ti Nth‘. - iured. twac everyt. mg _o. . . . nuclear bombers;-.ln France is their veto. .GUES'l‘S or KLAIBER Northwest -Territories) said M "0 9 "l 9 iacililgglagf i sons accidents reported because _ SCENE am. or HELL Cause of the disaster was Im-

- ‘Pearson

coming under cflgctlhsion, and he

'1 The four diplomats from the

there should be a 20-year plan

The initiative was droppedllvew Zeal

nd. took the lead in

l°l ‘he ‘t°'"‘- ‘m‘°“3h ROMP 3 Those who came back grim-

ldetermined but officials were

. MARTIN SILENT ‘united states Britain Frame to obliterate the Indian affairs - - ' i ' ‘investigating n P°55lbilli.V rhal hopes 8 Sollll-l0n ., >110! be long 10 3 hem,-ate thtervtew Ex_l d w t G’ ‘ D b h Saturday only African :1 campaign to prevent the loss ‘ nfflclals _r°P‘“'‘°d ‘ ““"‘b‘“' "F ..“'“°,°d ‘° Pake 1“ ti” deb“ de' 1 land beneath the dam had sub- deta_Ved_ ,;”~,.(."'v.. “mat Affairs Minister Mutt“ ‘an es “man-V M31152: ram ' Common-weallth members ap- ,of the seat jmlfl0T mishaps. ‘5CT‘Il')9(l the long night hours oft .

Hellyer made hisiltmment at

by secretary-gel» eral. that it might be wise to base the Canadian bombers “somewhere else" if President

declined to comment on the statement by Stikker. whose

k frankness surprised Canadian

reporters.

Hellyer said he did not expect the question to be ‘ NATO ministerial m e e t i n g I

;Rusk. R. A. Butler. ‘Couve de Murville and Gerhard [Schroeder — were guests with their advisers at the home of German ambassador Man-

fred Klaiber. A highly-placed source said the Western powers were study-

A. B. Patterson tSC——Fraser Valley) said basic economic and monetary reforms are needed so Canada can support a larger population.

MONDAY. Dec. 10 =

The Commons meets at 2:30

on the iss campaign

Asian members to UN Authoritative sources

their own attempts to add Afro-

bodies. said the

pealed publicly to Canada nott to press for a "test case" vote ;on a relatively minor Afro- ue. ' to add three ._ .. They intimated the Canadian seats to the General Assembly’s|‘nlll€5 an llnllrv fvlllng “P deer lights ' was working against 18-member general committee. ‘or steering committee.

llH-ostctges Expect

The test

it resolution

lrase was fought out Yarmouth. N.s., got five

tches and reported gusts to.42 sf of he“' '"“"°,,,"",",',";e,l.'g".ll,‘§},3‘ criss-crossing . tdrifts that had snow plows busy beams of helicopters looking for t i all day to keep the roads clear. victims. ;

t all eas. the snow Dozens Spent llnllr-* in ‘"9 l

‘ In almos at‘ t . stopped falling early in the day, dark Perched nn r°0“0DS- 00 -

the red glow and the

in {waiting for rescue as I scenetslded into underground oil pools

emptied by pumping derricics on nearby hills.

Whatever the cause. a leak was discovered in the reservoir wall at 11:15 am. Saturday and an evacuation warning was ill- sued in minutes.

de Gaulle refuses to allow their opening here today. Broad po- ing 0 new wa of 1-educin Ease. p.m. to d e b a t e creation of. . ' wet: to descend after the flood ‘ nuclear warheads to be stored ml°n'1 questions. inciudinz F-fish West tensionsythrough unigiateral a representation commissioner..?:vg:£:egtt t}’,"§“‘c,‘;‘,,,$f',f,°,$e,§’1‘.',,°, Ed I R I gut,‘ the dtftmmstozfimhatnd “"3: wet:-,3 receded. _ SAVED F301" tRtmt:mJ"Ps on French tory. West relations. are to be dealt moves by each side without any The senate meets at 3 Nu, rote in the UN and 1,, ten,“ 0* r Y e 9056 tfrh’ “ac M An official count Sunday 1 Mam’. d“; M :tde.Hf 'wa;”' lie ._ Mill. “'0 Wh P “'0 minxstere . .b mxnliments.by either .. .. - c d . ..LA PAZ Bolivia tAPl-Presi- ‘g “"‘°’°' . -- =“3 ‘°“°“5V' °" “. "" ' '13‘ =~ 1.-"u -gfi .- . ' Newfoundland w h Sunday I Hundreds were still in the o -' _. . .— - “Ml-30W the West at the UN. .' .‘ dent .Victor Pu Estenssoro or- ‘ wfl Dead—th!‘e0- h 75”“ ti 0, dlne with French Defence In!‘ “'l"°'*1°'.l- . . This idea‘ has been put for- Cgnfena But they stressed tb.t"th‘¢ dered his military chief Sunday “Pd -°"‘5' °°°“‘.°" "'° ‘“" Indured—15. if’‘’‘' d“’ ‘"' 9“ ' d ‘°fflt°“,h me’ H9"? Mam“ - ‘ Th'‘w°‘'‘"' "9’? F°‘“" mm‘ ward. the source said because ry Common-wealth countries will to fly ‘to tile tin mining centre "°s' W" °"p°°t“'g the ‘am’ Homes deSt|'0.Y6n-~54- 2 he d at c0 apseshlzyfi 3. 3° 53“ um wmfi“ "'9 "‘‘‘° 3”" m“ “V” d'.“”" 5““‘l” the United States is tinder no continue to meet and will con- of Oruro to Pick up four Ame" ‘mm “fly t.°d‘y' 'm‘.""gh "'9 Homes With N350!’ damage "mm at 8 camwhnd gt. of options there were "quite a night for their first meetlngtmmhm about the immediate time to exam mfluen“ as I ‘cans and 15 other hostages held weather office predicted it I b+i;la.k un3tli?I‘4.§élS in om rospects of formal agreement anti - government miners W0’-Mn‘ be 5' 5°V°"° U9 t° Homes Wlfh min"? damafle then tt"“.ar; aim“, (tat,

uberal MP lo.

Returns

Bituliural Wars

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on anything substantial with the Soviet Union. Consequently. he said. the West does not consider this a good time for a summit meeting.

series _of parallel, perhaps al-

-Meet Today

By JAMES NELSON OTTAWA (CPl—0ne and pos-

cial agreements on sharing the

roup. Saturday's developments grew out of Afro-Asian and Latin

forming the ll-nation Co

,American attempts to eliminate l't.he Commonwealth seat in re-

Security

the agreement" that allocated two

i

sin

ce Dec. 6. _ A presidential statement said lnecled ”‘ ""°5t N'“"°"“‘"3"d Gen. Alfredo Ovando also is un- area -

der orders to withdraw govern-

ment troops which had taken up it radii? rfinle positions around the mines at IP61‘ llnllr Wllln EH51! 10 31 Only

th-ree inches of snow was ex- l —. . l Apartment buildings with major damag . Apartment buildings w l t It minor damage-11. Total damage estimate

s l

’ Charlottetown’: recorded winds l 1 $10,000,000 l I

were 27 miles‘

began returning to the scene in

By and rescue work went. on by floodlight until dawn Sundaty showed the extent of the grim pic re

During the night helicopters

Instead. the Western allies ‘b1 t re provln es are ‘ma’ . lplucked dozens from roo are examining the chances of I :lxp:cte‘(ll]0f,oms(lgn federalc-provln- fofhfin seat had b°,',’;en‘t’t"e"l;’,iedn°,g Catavl and iigltf) Veinte, about onemhzlf inch ofmslnosvv fgll during Sunday th-“sands of evacuees and high etevattnnst policemen ' 30 miles sout o Oruro. a - our Perl lln 85’-

and firemen waded chest deep

lnnsl S'lmll"-‘ln00llS- n10V€5- costs of projects to mark the . through the mud resetting the

. 1967 centenary of Canada at-,3; ;[*;t,;‘*A;,g-;;g;m;§,g=M mg. . . . ;,g"1g,;g,;t;°",,:,* ;’“,,‘“‘,”,‘;f,‘.‘:;‘; _...r .....t mu... .....r c....tt...t.

. meetings opening here today. I. ' A d T k S L « - 1, lheart attack victims to am it -

Y DAVE McTN’l‘0SH tier arrived as Canatlida has nova Newf0undt“d_ New Bums. E:em&e'th:n§4tdt3te“£e::t fnlarogna a e ‘urge: hwt]pe:,0sp'T‘m(t;ha,-:5 lwf-et-glances. ( W. OTTAWA tCP) Auguste Mr. Choquette wou nt be wick. Ontario and Alberta have to the commohweatth, wrapped around tree: an 1e;’lk“‘::0rt:l:_:S ‘]lg1':;(;‘rVP:tr-‘fOr°h0‘trs

Choquette. the Liberal M? from Lotbiniere who was ticked off publicly by Prime Minister for saying Canada should get rid of its “iorelgn" monarch, returned to the bilin- gualbicuitural wars Saturday. He said in the Commons there

the Commons to complain.

LEADS OFF DEBATE immigration M i n i s i e r Fa- vl-eau, who led off the all-day debate on his departmental ap- propriations, announced that two new offices will be opened in France as one means of try-

Open Talks

CALRO (Reuters) —— President Gammal Abdel Nasser and vis- iting Communist Chlnese Pre- mier Chou Eu-lal began official talks in the Kubbeh Palace here

signed the agreement which the federal treasury will

projects of a lasting na-

tennial ture.

under EXPECTED TO swam)

_ This agreement is expected to contribute $1 per capital to cen- stand for a -time, at least. since

Communist

_ the Soviet. Union has indicated e province and an ini- it ‘

‘tiating. municipality or other china 1, seated on

body gs to but up a combined the council._But the debate last matching 81'3"‘ 0‘ $2-_d'Vld°d 1" week showed clearly that little

In Maritimes On Weekend

By THE CANADIAN PRESS I mouth look the life of 45-year-old Traffic accidents, a drowning‘ James Arthur Doucette and at

and a death from a fall took slx lives in the Maritime Province.-t this weekend. One traffic death

was reported in Prince Edward:

streets were pocked like a bat- tlefiel

d.