If it’; Grind. ‘or the Island . '

Iho buaraian is for it

To officially open the Hills- boi-o' Bridge. a link in the Trans Canada Highway. Fish- eries Minister Angus MacLean representing the federal gov- ernment. yesterday cut a white. silk ribbon strung

across the bridge at its centre while hundreds of spectators watched. Traffic was stopped on the bridge for about 15 minutes at 4.30 while the op- suing

FISHERIE M|NlST orriciiiv opoos

. ceremonies in Western ceremony took place. :

Attending were government.

CANADIAN NATIVE RECORD SET Summerside Man Wins Pole Vault At Trials

TORONTO (CP)—-Alf Groom. 24-year-old athlete from Sum-

merside. P.E.I.. Monday night cleared 14 ft. 3 in. to win the

pole vault in the British Empire Games track and‘ field trials.

Groom. who practises about 800 days a year in a coming behind his father's motel In Summerside. tried 14 feet. 3 inches in a steady rain but gave up after one ta-y w ' hand slipped on his fibre - glass pole.

Selectors meet later Monday night to decide Canada's 14-ath- lete track and field team for the Nov. Perty. Australia. Groom the trip.

llis leap was a Canadian na- tive record. The - nized mark was is fet 10% in- ches set by Bob Re-id of Van-

reeord of 14 feet 7 inches. Set

by Gerry Moro of Trail. B.C..

last month. More

went out at 13 feet 0 inches. The Maritimer had done

in Maryland in 1001 and he! winiier montiha

c. 1 games at was considered a certainty to make

was entered in the pole vault trials but

ALF GROOM

oouver in 1950. _ _ Pending in n Canadian native came to these trials practically

unnoticed. 3UIL'l‘ TRACK

and civic officials and mem-‘ hers of a motorcade that left

Newfoundland Wednesday to

travel the cross- Canada high-

way route for official opening

‘ Cana-

da next month. (See also story and picture on page 3.)

in the‘ gymnasium at"8ummer- side High School, filling‘ the pit with inner tubes from tires and shavings.

“He does it all on ‘his own.". said Charlie Ballem. his coach

Soviet Union Shrugs Off U.S. Offer

GENEVA fAP)——-The Soviet Union shrugged off new West- ern concessions for ending nu- clear tests Monday even before the United States could submits them to the 17-nation disarma-l meut conference. l_

Thus the ou-tlook was bleak} for the new plan. which Wash- ington had hoped might get the test-ban treaty talks rollingg again. No progress on the con-. ference's _ problem of general disarmament is likely until the nuclear issue is_out of the way.

U.S. Ambassador Arthur Dean told the Both session of the con- ference (that the resumption of

viet huclear tests

I .

Sunday , made the need for a test-ban treaty even more urgent.

and friend who is a physical ed ucation teacher at Summerside High School. "I-le is a very de- termined and persistent athlet and deserves a lot of credit." Ballem added.

Groom has been using the

idn't make

m The pole he used Monday was made for him in Toronto about a month ago and Groom said that “this was the first time it started to bend." "Groom. started in years ago as a sprinter. He has done 10.5 for 100 yards and. since he started pole-vaulting about six years ago, he paid his own expenses to meets in Bos-

father of three. track and field about

His story‘ is one of deiermln-gton. New York and Montreal. ation. He built his own runningtBEAT MITCHELL - track and vaulting pit behindl The only other Maritirner in feet 1 lnch—_—hia previous best—lhis father's motel and in the‘ the pole vault. 18-year-old Geof-

t.ralncd- indoors

FILM CAPITAL DEBATES DEATH

Maril/yn Leaves Mystery ;To Add To Her Legend

By non THOMAS

IIOLLYWOOD (AP) -— The United States film capital Mou- dsy was faced with the final mystery in the legend of the fabulous Marilyn Mo roe—w her death an accident or sui- cide? '

The question was debated by friends and co - workers and by physicians ‘and nhychistrlsts t to its cause of bionde actress‘ death late Sat- urday night. she was found nude in her had. an empty sleeping pill bottle nearby.

Her body Monday Ines vstor of the estate of the act- Eess‘ mother ldys Baker

lay. last rcportbd a mental pa- tient in a home in nearby LI

i-ascents. ' Earlier. the coroner's office

funeral arrangements and the services would be held Wednes- day in Los Angeles. Details have not been disclosed. Coroner Theodore Curphey

3 appointed a "suicide team" of

psychiatrists to study the evi- dence oi Miss Monroe's last weeks and hours.

"I-Ier death definitely was not from natural causes." said Dr.

he Curphcy. He made the presump-

tion that she died from over- dose of “some drug." but added "thls may not be a physical suicide . . . she may have done it by lust taking an overdose of pills without realizing it.

The 90-minute autopsy dis-

WHERE-TO-FIND-IT

Announcements. Ilotlces nirtlu. deaths. 0%. -- 1..

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closed she “had no diseases in any organs." But er con- clusions awaited toxicological tests to determine what drug and how much of it may have caused death. Results may be known today.

The condition of her person was "not emaciated." reported the autopsy surgeon..but indi- cating “gross lack of care."

The psychological aspects will also be studied: h r troubled childhood: broken mar- riages; a history of mental ill- ness in the family. including her mother so maternal grandparents; psychiatric treat- ment in recent years: demand- ency over being fired from a movie.

DOUBT EXPRESS! Marilyn's

D . Many of friends ex-

ssed doubt that she could have killed ,

"I'm it was an accl- dent," slld Dead who told her visit to use last week and of ‘ to resume work on ‘the movie

Got to Give with

Somethlng’s

ion Nelson. Marliy_n's tons- fri and

rcqncnoai an pans out o

r AEC Speculates On Soviet Tests ;

WASHINGTON (AP) -— The U.S. Atomic Energy Commis- sion said Monday there “are

P fore the big blast detected Sun- day.

At. the same time. the AEC placed the strength of the Sun- day high - altitude test "in the order of” 30 megatons——equal to the power of 30,000,000 tons of TNT.

es imaied ' megatons although there were various other guesses.

Swedish scientists earlier had t the p wer at 40

Indications are. the commis- sion said, that the earlier tests were conducted in the low kilo- ton range at the Soviet test site in iberla.

The AEC had said Sunday only that "the soviet Union det- onated a nuclear weapon in the megaton range."

llorso racing held the spot- the meeting

light at , of the Charlottetown Itotsry club yostordgest

lush (Duoh) Acorn. Char-

tee on Nuclear Disarmament to .

The committee. headed by . M

memorial in d w

wreaths on our cenotaph for na- tions with whom we were at . war "

c mhumdion “Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew"

'0WN, CANADA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1962.

WIATHH

Variable eloudines. a few showers Q ’ thunderstorms in afternoon and evening: ‘ light winch. Low-high 63 and 75. ‘

-vggm SEVEN ENTS 14 packs

Financing For Education Discussed By Provinces

Island-Born Officer Retireslrom RCAF

Twenty-two years of specializ- ed service in the RCAF logis- tics field end today for Air Com-

A. and the late Mrs. MacKinnon.

Council.

Since joining the service as a I

supply officer in 1940. he has held a number of responsible posit- ions in his field. and has serv- ed since October l958 as Chief of Material at Air Force Head- quarters. Ottawa.

Air Commodore MacKinnon was born at Charlottetown. in 1906, and educated there and at Bishop's College. Lennoxville.

Following service as a supply officer in Canada, he was trans- ferred to RCAF Overseas Head-

‘ quarters in London. England in

August 1944. and during the year that he serv there was en- gaged in logistics planning for the proposed Far Eastern oper- iltions.

AIR COMMODORE On his return to Canada. Mac- Kinnon served for a year in the Equipment Planning Branch of aintenance (now Air Material) Command Headquarters. an ll was then sent to the United States for exchange duty at the Air Matierai Command lleadquarters. Wright. - Patter-

His departure from the RCAF _; was marked by a dinner in his ; honor by the Chief of the Air ‘ Staff and members of the Air 1

VERMONT MYTH IS DEFLATED

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) —Vermont’s department of agriculture has- quietly de-

a a myth which has persisted in Vermont for many years.

It just isn’t true. the de- partment reports, that Ver- mont has more cows than pcople.

A c u r r e n t department, publication places the total of all livestock in the state at 383,313. according to cen-

Sales lax Collections Pondered At lalks

By JIM PEACOCK Later these briefs would be VICTORIA (CF) — Financing flstributed among all the prov- ! ducation and the u u nccs for study and possible he-

gf Eales tax from peggleecwm i tion to co-ordinate the methods.

have goods shipped to anotherlmscl-l5SED SCHOOLS pro ince came under scrutin ‘ ‘The agenda listed co - ordina- .of the leaders of Canada's prov- hon of educational standards

- . _ ‘incial conference. which began - and Cl|l'l‘lClll8 85 the 0P9 ' ggﬁleffums from low" re imnndny with provinces ex. l topic. but it came ou-t as a fin-‘ Vermomvs population was tcept Newfoundland represented. allffal lgllﬂtlef. _ . just over 390.000 in the i960 ‘ 'l°°3’ Sm “'3 °f 9 ad 3 mm“ mleresmu

l.Newfoundland. delayed in the.€XCllange of Views." said Mr.

' . census‘ ‘West Indies where he was at- l Leaage-hAfl€ll,‘ all. flllilllclllg edu- tendin Jamaica's independ- 08 Oll 35 ecomt? one of -‘he

Escapee From ,encc celgebrations. missed the 1ll0Sl important problems of o - morning session but he arrived 8-Very p|‘0VlllCl8l t=‘.0Vel‘nment." .

at noon in time for the gfter. Discussion, he Said WHI- noon meeting, imainly on the education finance

Arrested Here The 17-point agenda adopted lmatter. but delegates spent

ﬂi . . I I I131‘-.' 5

COMMODORE MACKINNON

son Air Force Base, Dayton. 0-f hio. During this period. he be- came Chief of this Command‘s Roquircments Branch. in July 1949. he returned to e post of Planning Require- ments Officer for RCAF Air Ma- .5 terial Command. Rockcliff-. On-, tario. He went to Europe again‘ in November 1951 on appoint- ment to the Logistics Division a Supreme Headquarters. Allied. Powers Europe. ' ' ' r MacKinnon' was assigned to Air Force Head- quarters in 1954 as Director of Material Supply. and becamei Chief of Material four years lat- 1 er. On his retirement. he plans‘ to reside in Ottawa. ‘

‘Halifaxlegion Blocks

Wreath For Hiroshima

HALIFAX tCPl — About 25. Royal Canadian Legion mem-‘ bers Monday prevented an at- tempt by the Halifax Commit-l

place at a war memorial at

implications" that the Russians ‘’’'e‘‘‘“‘ l'‘ "‘°m°,l'3’ P‘ U“’'‘ began their new nuclear atmoS_ atomic attack on Hiroshima 17 heric test series a few days be- 5'93“ 33°-

C. Duckwort . planned to

lay the wreath at the foot of the ' ' town l-lalifax..

o n but settled for placing _it against

a nearby flagpole.

committee mem-

they found their path blockaded . by the Legionnaires. Mr. Duck-

worth approached Victor A. Hartlen. president of the Le- 1’ 1‘ l m 9 gion's Scotian Branch after a brief conversation the mg him 0,, Jamaica} in.-ienend. committee moved to the flag-. le.

25. and

Mr. l-lartlen said the Legionll objected because “in our opln- eat at midnight Sunday after ion it is not appropriate to lay 307 years of British rule. :

Iottetown race classifier a nd announcer. G amour

was also added to the meetille with the presence of the Gold Cup and lancer girls..who were intro- duced by the chairman W. J.

not the committee's plan to “dishonor" the war dead" but rather to impress upon people; the need for immediate disarm- ament.

the 90-minute opening ses- ‘; some time seeking means of re- An escapee from the Y o r k sion. includes co - ordination of * ciprocal collection of tax.’ County Jail al Fredericton. N- tprovincial bond issues. econ-‘ One method suggested was to 3.‘. Was arrested lll SlleI‘W00tl‘omic growth and development,|make merchants agents for col- yesterday by CnSt- John N0rl0ll municipal finances. financial-tlecting sales tax on g and Cast. J. D. Brooks of the responsibility laws and the for-t shipped to customers in other Charlottetown Detachment Of mation of a national economic ‘ provinces. the RCMP. He was identified by . advisory council. Mr. Lesage said provinces pollcc 35 Wllllam W0lfl"Cd 505' Premier Jean Lesagc of Que» which impose sales taxes-—all erqucst. bee. chairman of the two-day except Alberta and Manitoba—_ Anotllcl‘ mall ill ill‘? Vehicle private meeting. told repoi'ters=now are losing large amounts- Wllh S’-‘d€I‘tlU€Sl. Wh0S¢‘ flame the provincial leaders agreed to of revenue because there is no_ “'33 “°l 1'°l°359‘l~ W35 315'’ 3"‘ .h8V€ briefs prepared on theirjmeans to enforce sales-tax col_-,_ (1

rested. Both men Will be t'llaI‘i?.- « methods of financing educa- lecﬁnn on goods ghippe

ed Wllll h8VlllE the Unlawful ll0S- liion. merchants in one province to

session of a stolen vehicle. .—--*~'**——"“"—““ customers in another, The charges are expected Ml -- The premiers also plan to

be laid before Magistrate James lFOrn1er Hillel‘ ldfscusg iabnr ]egis[aﬁ0n_ ,.e¢i._‘

‘ I

Guard Members ‘

B. Johnston this morning. The vehicle. the property ni| Raymond Leonard of Oromo

L . I stolen in Oromoﬁtg iFqce c|1a|‘ge$

procal truck licensing. liquor-. advertising laws. portable pen- sions. administration of- secu_i_'l__-_

N-3.. W85 lattes legislation. unemployment. -lllly 35- assistance. interchange of elec- Z-i—'——"—""_—— BONN (Apt —~ Thll‘l.CCll lf_ll‘- trical power and co - ordinaﬁm: Explosion Threat mer members of Hitler‘: elite of prnvjncial nun;-1,: in non; ,

guard were charged Monday Wll and finance natural dis- . with helping murder 170.tl00§n5inr5_ Remains In Town Jews .. .. Second World War , 4 ‘ ‘ concentration camp. 'iGUARDED 3‘ RLMV

MAPLE. Ont (CPI —- Police‘ The charges say gwn or inn’ They opened private talks in kept all but residents and cm» , men "we truck equipped 1 the red-carpeted chamber of the ergency personnel out of thewiin 3 chnmben into which ex-§B.C. legislature. where desks east side of this village Mon- ; pans; gas cnu1d be numned_ The g were set up in a circle and the day as a 30.000 - gallon tank‘ others are accused of nsingidoors were guarded by red- of compressed propane contin- whips go nerd condemned Jews coated RCMP.

Ued 10 bum in lhe Wake 05 into this compartment. The con-‘ Host Premier W. A. (2. Ben. shattering weekend cX].)l0Sl0ll5. centraﬁon camp was located mine“ of B‘C_ and M‘-_ Lesago

Vaughan Township engineers; Kulmhof in western Poland. ‘held out the meeting as a ma- sald there was Still 8 50-5°‘0nly three Jews are known to jor contribution inward national chance of a further explosion in lhave survived this camp. unit . the big tank_ and reporters and The 13 ace-used men “W. in p,-ems.-rs waiter gnaw of others were cleared from the various parts of west Ge,-many Prince Edward island and “'93- and hold respectable jobs. One ‘ Woodrow Lloyd ill Saﬁltalf‘-ll9='

wan attending. Mr.

Messages Pour In To Jamaica

hers approached the memorial} .KINGSTON. ilamaica (Reut-

ers)—Messages Monday poured in from all over the world tol Minister Alexan- . der Busiamanic, congratulat-‘ ence. The island became independ-

Labor Minister Starr repre- sented Canada and Vice - Pres- .

. 'ident Johnson the U.S. at thet Mr. Ducliworth said it was ceremonies here. ‘

A us SPOTI. AT aomzv

Ilancox, who gave a brief sum- mary of the origin and devel- snsnt of the Gold Cup and sau- cer event. Here one of the Gold Cup Saucer Girls. Marylin Mscboosld. Charlotte-

. is an employee of the city gov- _rf‘ Lloyd is busy at home and Mt.

ernment in Munich. five are po- lice officers. one a tavern‘ Shaw has been ill. Senldr cab- owner. another retired and the inet ministers are here in their rest workers. places-

Their defence is that The premiers agreed to send were carrying out orders. a wire to Show wishing

Trial in Bonn district court is F him to speedy and full recov- ’ expected to start late this year. 1 ery.

. U.S. Flying Club Plane Crashes In St. Lawrence

SEPT-ILES. Que. (CP) — A 'All:-iin. also of Sept-lies. ; The plane had been in Sept-

they

Bustamante Monday carried out his first official duty as prime minister of independent Jamaica. presenting Princess, Margaret with a dinner service of Jamaican pottery as a gift‘ from his government and peo-

ple. With it were five baskets nnivate mane believed to be; of sea Shells. from a ﬂying club at the Loring 1 lies and left some time during ln 3 simple 1 U.S. Air Force Base. Limestone. , the weekend.

ceremony at King's House. Sir Kennelh'Me,_ Biackburne. formerly the ls-have crashed in the st. Law-l

land's governor. took the nathlrence near Mingan. on the:TyPhQO‘n

orth shore of the river. 450!R-I-ses In Japan

of allegiance as Jamaica's first I :meS northeast of Montreal 5°v°m°’ general‘ l Fragmentary information. un-, . lconfirmed. said at least two TOKYO ’ROUlerSl —— More persons were bcneved in nncnjrain was forecast today as the been killed. The number aboarditoll Ol death and damage. the pine was not known, »caused by floods and landslides Heavy fog hampered rescue 1 hi the Wake Of typhoon Nora. operations and "nun inn-n-.‘continued to rise in Hokkaido. fered with radio commiinica- Japan's northernmost lslandd as. P ‘ c r rts said that "ill An RCAF‘ Search and Rescue persons ha died. 12 were miss- plane Went to te area but ing and 19 were injured. Nearly was unable to land. houses were washed away . Reports a aid .or destroyed. ll'.“.."‘...‘.’.'.‘§’..-.i‘°§°“‘§....‘i$"”l.f'“f{.‘§ mm rm - vow-c head- ‘ scene from l-{arve St. Pierrc.1‘l“‘“'l°"5 M°“‘l“y “llzhl 593“! about 25 miles from Mingan. d°“’“ l" 12 ‘l°3d- 955 l“l“l‘°d . nd fivc missing thenumber of PLANE LEAVES casualties in Formosa caused by A Beechcrnft plane carrying ‘ typhoon Opal. two inspectors from the federal transport department left here late Monday for the flight of about 125 miles to Mingan. kesryn for Northern r

was reported Monday to:

the Quebec

No One I-niured; A spo tin Crosh.Landing Wings Al line‘ said the plane

was a single - engine Navion l(N0xVILl.l«‘.. Tenn. t’AP\—. Ieaplane and that it crashed in 3 A four - engine American Air- ,the St. Lawrence just. after 1 lines turbo - pgop plan?‘ with 70 takeoff. persons aboar ran 0 a rosi- Provincial police said the rcg- . way. cracked up and ripped off ilstﬁvmgumber was reported to Y'all‘ wingAas it tlalniled Mat ll\dcGl;'ee - . . yson irpor a e on ay. 0 First indication here of a -nis- one was injured. hsp was a radio inquiry from The engines in the torn-off the Losing base asking if there wing caught fire. Alan Atkins. was any report about the plane. ‘airport manager. said: “If the The cots:-nunigation was frag- b wiuilzdha: nié>t tgrpngtfif. tliiiihplnao mentsry iii a cw names were won av u w s town, is caught by the cam- given. The pilot was said to be I passengers aboard." ,. era. as she talks with: left to Adrien Lapolnte. . The airline said 66 passengers right. Dr. G. G. Houston. pres- Reported to be among the . and a crew of five were Ident of Rotary, Mr. Acorn ngers wam Joanne Tarchff. ‘ the plane. Flight 414 en route 3. Earle MacDonald. Gold Cup a nurse from Sept - lies. and|f‘i'-oir; Dallas. Tex.. b ICC

and saucer osrsdo chairman. Jtlarsuerito Giroux and Claude or