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“Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew”

Shaw crac One er anreernenenents

By DON MacLEOD Guardian-Patriot Staff Writer

| in the history of Prince Edward , federation Island and will usher in a new way project * prosperity for the pro-

= this cause-

ADA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1962.

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DIEF BREAKS THE NEWS

Causeway

Se TR

Date At Polls | Loudly Cheered

By ALAN DONNELLY | what is expected ta he one of

OTTAWA (CP) — The long- the election issues—his charge

| awaited signal for a general | of delaying tactics and obstruc-

election on Monday, June 18, | tion by the opposition which, he

was flashed Tuesday by Prime | said, had made an early election Minister Diefenbaker. inevitable.

His announcement —- starting Mr. Pearson met him on that gun for a two-month campaign | issue, saying the prime minis- that

ommons mem impossible for the gov- |

te Leader Pearson and | ernment with 203 members to) W. Herridge, CCF-New Dem. | get its legislation passed by the | igi Party House leader, buth 265-seat ons “unless the | ore the ending of weeks | opposition gave up the exercise y and declared | of its cherished rights of carry-— | thetr readiness to tackle the | ing out its duties.’’ | government at the polls. Dissolution of the present | Mr. Diefenbaker said the | Parliament, elected March 31, House will sit today and Thurs- | 1958, probably will come on day, if necessary, to deal with a | Thursday with Mr. Diefenbaker few pieces of government legis- | flying to Quebec City where lation and vote interim supply Gen. Vanier is in residence

PRIME MINISTER

Mainland ©

| era “The government of Canada, | through the Prime Minister, ‘e. am also ene ey has ae my "taith in this

hepey in view of the f hat | proposal and after at various..times I tate worl the Conservatives

tperty' i the Causeway,” as and I | be built. It is my answer to our

mom jubilant Shaw yesterday after speaking by long distance . to Prime who that it had neen

shes have declared were the Terai feasible and it pio

June 18 Election Is Set:

To Be Built

At Cost 0f $105 Million

Two Years ToDraw Plans, | 6 Years To Build, Is Belief

By BEN WARD and “the government has now OTTAWA (CP)—A_ $105,000,- decided that a causeway will be built. - 000 causeway to link Prince Ed-| ~™,, ward Island with the mainland | The Durpose oe eee

by the National Research Coun il

“The most economical cross- ing for road and rail traffic ap-

: undertaken has been to deter- pears to a combination of Canada was announced in the! mine whether the project would causeway with navigation locks Commons Tuesday by Prime) be feasible from an engineering and a bridge,”

Minister Diefenbaker. eee _ oe ae from, Opposition L ee ee r Pearson 0 01 view

There pbcot no mention of | “The aaa in both cases is dl ey ene i

when work will start. nouncement ‘“‘on the eve of the

in the affirmative.” The nine-mile causeway, com-| Parts o bined with navigation locks and| were

his announcement e drowned out by the erup-

election,’’ but wondered if “the cost of this causeway and other

|& beidee, “would run between | tion of desk-thumping and ap-| great national undertakings in Jourimain Island, N.B., d| plause from government the fut w

e future will not have to be Borden Point, | 2 Ell, along the benches. 7} out of eng deficits,””

| same stretch of the meso all The prime minister said an w. rridge, CCF -New Pere aan nd ce fe mportant part of the causeway japaatiats Bay House leader, e g Pr Peseenge for was the construction of a! said it is obvious that the cause:

| ferry now oper ae is rs ae Sees of Cape Tormentine wher

scale model of the area built; way is an “‘urgent cause.’

to y the government's bills creer will be the signal for ‘ive months or the official electoral machin- the P BL, ieee. reeds SI Then, he said, he will ask pr to swing into action. Cost | antalnas, and Borden is ms Governor-General Vanier to dis- of conducting the election— ferry terminal on the isla | solve Canada’s 24th Parliament | apart from party campaign ex- os E.I, has a population of rel | for an election June 18. penses—is estimated at $10,700,- Election day is the anniver- | 000 Cee the Commons, offi-

The Liberal party already has

announced in the House of Ganeies that the long-dreamed- of causeway between Prince Ed- ward Island and Can- ada is to become a reality.

sincerely believed that from the | statement when we came into first . | power that we were the ‘party

“As stated on a number of | of the causeway’ and that we occasions, a project of this size | would see it built if declared is a tremendous undertakin g, | feasible by top enginee and I have always contended |

Premier Shaw, obviously “Now we can go await in flushed with ee at one | that any announcement as to its | the sure and certain conviction | stage > conversation with | feasibility would depend on the | that we'll finally have a cause- the Prime Minister said “that’s | completion of exhaustive stud- | way connecting us with the | all right, John—my blood pres-| ies which ,in some cases, in- | mainland, providing regular, sure has gone up, John <a the world’s best engin- | year-round transportation, from a smail er cers.

NEVER LOST FAITH small province 1 hope vein will ‘7 essed c ; Vv NTS I find it difficult to express rt oe ay: years wa Gas a Com i w I feel about the announce-

DEEPLY GRATIFIED vince | Conservative government t ha

began a ferry service os | Broveet, mainland and it is I

in promoting the faith

| government I never lost had faith in the Prime

fied I am about the announce-/| us and the

ment that a causeway a & Colgerty tive that Mintetor—-teith that if it were thle and will be built. Tt is in- | will bring us yo complete ac- | feasible, he would put it through. eed a very outstanding event! cord with the terms of Con- he it’s feasible and economic-

Hot Debate In Britain “= On Potato Regulation

mod and the earth will bring egg tore with the | Boy

- ‘the people or Edward Island share deep sense of

Mor yng a happiness ove: today’s announcement."’

Secret Satellite

of | Tt was on the afternoon of |

The | ers in about two or three weeks Launched By U. S.| pane the aauaaaea of Confederat:

| sary of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. | 139 candidates named. Progres- | sive Conservatives have 85 can- didates formally picked, the (Continued on Page 3 Col. 5)

RAISES ISSUE

The prime minister raised |

Pleased

Comment from the mainland

way would be bull was en- Premier

Stanfield of Nova e causeway

= = di Z 3 < S & p a

thusiastic. Scotia si . \ sai hear plans are definite for building it tends to strengthen the whole area, | and Prince Edward Island in ae particular

Prime ae ae Diefenbaker's| ‘‘Imagine,'’ he said, eee Premier Stanfield said Nova will

t Tuesday that the able to advertise an i Northumberland Strait Causeway | ocean drive. It would tates Scotia probably benefit “will be built . . . at a cost of | tourists from greater distances. | from both the building of the $105 million, climaxed six years | The entire Maritime area would | causeway and its presense af- ae almost > months of | benefit, not merely Prince Ed-

sometimes hopeful | ward Island,” he observed.

| eedling ‘since the ambitious Ject was first proposed. cel | ANAL YSIS OF COST | and those - want to do busi- Initial efforts were made to "5S there

determine the. cost of a- full WELCOME NEWS survey and on firm of| In Fredericton AB yeetaho Premier L. Brisay said:

January 26, 1956 that Neil oo) Matheson, then a Liberal mei acting New G. Des-

alte New Brunswick govern-

be built “to join Canada to pe economic analysis at that ‘canna wae ¢ rege and a ent welcomes this greatly as a erms of modern A top rank economic analyst | big step in the right direction | modern uae | Close to the government had | for economic development par-

aa told an Island MP as early as ticularly for Prince Edward cohen bee Seeien Pes Prince Edward | (Continued on Page 3 Col. 7) (Continued on Page 2 Col. 2)

A works department

Hai Announcement

oe Islanders in and out highways to such centres = of politics hailed Prime Minister Montreal, Boston

official Diefenbaker’s sudden and unex- York," J. David "evan rn stressed that so far only the| announcement Tuesday (Continued on Page 2 Col. 3)

feasibility studies have been Prince i ton Island’s ~

con-

completed. There was no deci- Causeway will be bu sion, for instance, on where the) Comments ranged tom an op- necessary bridge and naviga- | timistic ‘‘The Island touri tion opening would be built. It | ™ might even require two bridges. |

The studies merely sought to determine whether the project was possible in view of the ice, wind, fisheries and _ shipping problems involved

Late last year in a Charlotte- town speech the prime minister

Stewart foresaw mn tourism while Charlottetown Mayor A. Walthen Gaudet called it “a forward move in the velopment and progress o province

e~ of the

referred to the road-and-rail Here are the opinions of pro- causeway as one of the most minent Islanders reached last difficult engineering problems | night

ever tackled anywhere in the NEIL A MATHESON world, “After the passage of the The causeway has been advo- years it is a real pleasure to

cated by islanders almost since| me to see this dream finally Confederation, It was one of Mr, | come true,” Neil A. Math Diefenbaker’s campaign prom-| former MP for Q oo for start.

is, the man the

ises in 1957 and 1958, > idea, said, The first suggestion for

STUDY SINCE 1958 | the causeway came from Mr. Mr. Diefenbaker told the Matheson in the House of Com-

mons in 1956

- Parliament » At A Glance

By THE CANADIAN PRESS TUESDAY, April 17, 1962

Prime Minister Diefenbaker announced he will dissolve the 24th Parliament shortly for a federal general election June 18

Mr. Diefenbaker reported the government intends to build aa Prince Edward {s- land causeway, a $105,000,000 job

The CCF-NDP group staged another blockade of divorce bills and drew a scathing at- tack from Robert McCleave (PC—Halifax), WEDNESDAY, April 18

The Commons meets at 2:30

| House that federal studies have

} p.m. to debate government been going on since 1958 into J. DAVID STEWART legislation. The Senate meets the whole causeway question, ‘This will put us on the main at 3 p.m

Island and the mai

LONDON (Reuters) \% House of Commons remained in | time. session until the early hours of Opposition Labor MPs con- SANTA a Calif. today debating a government | tended that the government (AP) US. = ae | m

potato regulation that has come | should have foreseen that bad launched a satellite because of a serious | weather would result in a poor denberg Air Force missile tase |

under fire

potato sr Hg arranged for imports | Tuesday — one so secret it| The regulation was proposed in wouldn't even give the time of |

to restrict the The shortage has touched off | launch. | ae

with new pota- The complete air force state-| r about twice their | ment said: “A satellite employing a Thor- | ena B booster combination ifting adjourned without was launched today by the aie | The ae eal ™m Vandenberg Air

expansion po- tato crops because of a glut of | soaring _— Potatoes on the market im re- | toes selling fo cent years —e price at this time of |

However, this year frosts have yea delayed “the maturing of the early potato crop and an acute taking any action on the regula- force fro shortage is expected by farm. | tion. Force Base.

Belgium, Holland Demand Britain's Entry In ECM

some Frenchmen who helieve The Hague are

Ry JOSEPH E. DYNAN also a demand that Britain par-

oo Beigiu te in negotiations for a Brussels and shnmaats % called a Foca cation union. r acting at Britain's behest. Common Tues- Luns and Spaak said later the The move appeared to mean

that neither Belgium nor oa Netherlands, which have stron trade ties with oe inten | to be su a continental bloc dominated y the France | of President de Gaulle of by a) French-West German combine. All six ministers agreed that any treaty on political union | should be submitted to London for comment.

Spaak and Luns’ position raised a new roadblock to West- ern European political «nity.

day for Britain's admission to| ministers made some progress E Econottic Com-|on certain points of the pro-

reel political treaty. But they

all questions to the

Feenes who were acting as

This development. French conference spokesmen.

Sources arose a POSITION CLEAR

Meeting of the six Common French sources said Spaak

Market ministers dis- made his position clear. He said

cussing plans for political un- that as -_ as Britain was

7 outside

uropean munity as a condition for politi- tal integration of Wentore Ew: |

Common Market oo Paul-Henri Spaak of Rel-| Belgium al not sign a treaty and Joseph Pe - ‘The | on political union even if it con- lands served that formed fully to Belgian views

their Belgians and Dutch thus and the six ministers separated er commen cr woul ne en on ate ; ye behind Brit- without issuing @ communique Britain has entered the Com-|ain’s application for Common or fixing a definite *<t> tar thei |

the project met with some ms criticism even from Isl — for the modern the dream of cons- iemmmaieneien with Canada oe outweighed the opposition.

SUPPORT RALLIED But Island

a aie aa associated boards of trade moved to marshall for the proposal, which

most Islanders saw as a major Project to point the way to new and hitherto undreamed of pos- ee Nt Wrovinclal develop.

ie

i

ioaiee in the key 7 tourist industry expan. ar beyond anything proached in the past. ed] Robert Winters, then works minister and a cabinet spokes. man for the Island as well as his native Nova Scotia, observed the idea had t as tourist attraction potentiality.

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APPRO Arrow Ne. 1 voints te stars showing Causeway route while arrow No. 2 indicates proposed N.B.

VED FOR CAUSEWAY, TO WEST OF LINE TAKEN RY FERRIES

terminus at Jourimain Island, north and west of Tormenting

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