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-GUEST SPEAKER 4N DISCUSSION

” year, .Opl,. Hender gave # brief but factual account of the role played by the RCMP in*the

Cpl. DH. Hender, Montague Detachment ROMP, who wae guest speaker Tuesday = ing at the Montague Y's

dinner,. is pictured tisicae statistics with Neil Hooley, Jr.,

president of the esas Y's Men. Opl. Hender is also scout master and took the op- portunity to thank the Y's

Men for their financial assist- ance to the scouts in the past

area. His remarks and - the | question period made\ up one of the more interesting supper meetings of the Y’s Men Club.

No Public Tenders Called For Gov't Land Purchase

CAPITAL BUREAU - OF THE GUARDIAN OTTAWA — The government has purchased 6.7 acres of land serviced with sewer and—water at 2164 an acre in Prince County, Veterans Affairs Min. ister Roger Teillet said Wednes- day in reply to questions placed paper by David MacDonald, MP for Prince. . There were no public tenders ‘ ealled for the ‘purchase of the land which was obtained from MCL Development Corporation of Summerside; the minister re- vealed. Solicitor for the legal work was G. Bruce MacDonald

rived-—at.—_by

who is not a duitiicliie re the company that sold the land. His estimated fee is $145. .

The value of the land was ar- | the... appraisal | ‘Methods used by the Veteran's Land. Administration and Ap-| and praisal Institute of Canada, Mr. Teillet said. Since April 1965 some 48 parcels of land have been...purchased: on P.E.I. for veterans under the VLA and it will be subject to usual tax as- sessment on the same basis as any other ratepayer in the vil- lage of St. Eleanors.

— QUESTION land was the same as was of- |

Outside the house Mr. Mac- Donald said-he is concerned

over the fact no public tenders

were called for the purchase of the land, but in view of the act Ls land is in a residential area fully serviced he does not feel the price -paid was exces- sive. : A series of similar questions about the land deal had also been placed in the order paper

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Eastern and Central Districts The Guardian, Charlottetown, Thur., March 3, 1966. 5|ing him (the smail farmer) from

| POTATO

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| the demands on agriculture in a | modern economy.”

“We would,’ said the brief, | “he opposed to any system which would apply force in mov-

‘(Annual Meeting Set For Today

This year’s annual meeting. of | the P.E.I. Division of The Can- adian Red Cross Society to be) 2 = held at The Confederation..Cen-

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HALIFAX (OP) — The wea-

ther office says unseasonable

mild, moist air still covered the

by New Democratic party lead; | er T. C. Douglas and were also | answered

MacDonald asked if the ‘© veterans for about $1,100 a/ this

Wednesday. He was) Chaleur:

told the land would be divided! midnight Thursday; a few rain- |Sponse from those contacted to

into half acre lots and resold! showers and snorvflurries ending take part in this safety seminar

afternoon? temperatures lat which statistics will be given Wedne:

fered, for sale to the nt of National Defence for the con- struction of 275 houses in con- nection with the RCAF Station | at Summerside.

Mr. Teillet replied that in 1963 | La Coles and’ associates act- ing behalf of. MCL Develop-

advised Central Mortgage Housing it had land for at St. Eleanors. No price was mentioned and no negotiat- ions were carried out by CMHC.

CITY AREA FUNERALS

» son Gillis, was ‘March 16 in Souris.

bavee ey Are Adjourned

SOURIS — Thomas Conway, |

Regional forecasts:

Prince ‘Edward Island,’ Bay of | According to Dr. Gillis, there Cloudy clearing near has

| similar to |

, TORONTO. (CP): — Tempera-| }

% = «|Dr. John Gillis of Eldon The iday’s proceedings’ will conclude

40 | f

‘|through illness of the President,

tures:

Low overnight sie Wednesday Dawson -31

BAG es ce -22 =«- ; Prince George. ... 5 23 Vancouver ........ 27 41 Edmonton ........ 3s -3 COlMOrG oo veesiee 1 8 Yellowknife ....... -27 -6 MBMIRG 6s sc sce sese 2 -15 Winnipeg ......... ~B +20 Chmrchil) .....5565 1:7 North Bay........ 2 37 Morante 556cccccass 32 48 Ottawa ......e000s 34 38 Montreal ......... 35 $9 Quebec 33 38 Fredericton 34 40 Saint John........ 32 «(39 Moncton .:........ 34 37 Halifax 33 0 Charlottetown _ 33 35 Sydney Mz...

| Yarmouth 24 39 iSt. Johns Nfld. 30

| Boston 3B; e iNew York 42 |Miam!: 62 4 |Tucson 49 OS? Los--Angeles | 44 54 San Francisco 3 51

- |Red Cross co-ordinating commit-

jchairman of the provincial Red

| his home or land,” In its brief the Federation list- led eight points that were includ- jed-in a brief presented recently |to the Dominion Cabinet by the |Canadian Federation of? Agricul- ture which have implication so far as Island agriculture is con- cerned.

The eight suggestions were:

The need for the improvement of milk prices | The need for effective action |to meet farm labor problems, | The need for a more systema- _~ |tie organization of agricultutal =. |product marketing. The need for the improvement , \and extension of crop insurance 4| The need for a concerted and .» |effective attack on the problem of rural poverty.

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fective and systematic means of | cofsultation between farmers and governments.

‘) ‘The-need to improve and de- velop farm credit services.

The need for legislation to properly protect, the farmer in cases of processor, dealer or wholesaler: bankruptcy.

The federation asked that the agricultural committee of the Legislature study the acts relat- ing to the powers of expropria-

GILLIS

tre in Charlottetown on Wednes- jday, March 9th will feature a |day-long ‘“‘Safety Seminar” |which will be presided over by

committee report its cepa to the Legislature.

The. brief pointed at “in practically every province the rights of ‘property owners are being assaulted-from—an ever-in- {creasing number -of directions with a dinner meeting chaired

iby Judge C. St. Clair Trainor, \vice-president, in the absence

sufficient importance that two provinces have Royal Commfs- sions studying these matters.” There were four resolutions of the. Federal-Provincial Agricul- tural, Council includéd. in the brief, three of which were com- mented on by the Federation. - A‘resolution of the council sup- porting the establishment of a young beef bull and progency testing station in-the Maritimes was commended by the Federa- tion to the government for its | support. The Federation would ed to see the testing station at | Charlottetown. Another resolution of the Coun- cil that the -P.E.I. Department | of Agriculture aggressively pro- mote the rail grading~ of: P.E.I. cattle sold through the packing plants, ‘holds the key to the key to the improvement of cat- tle quality in this province,”

William A. Currie of Summer. side. Dr. Gillis, who is the viee-

Cross first aid committee, was | appointed early in 1965. to head a committee set up within Red.

of the Society: first aid, water safety, home services and Jun- for Red Cross.

“The meetings held by this

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pointed up the necessity for oader approach to the whole problem, and’. prompted representatives of izations -.and-—-Goverti-

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The need for increasingly ef-|. .

tion in this province and that the |*

and the problem has become of |.

pressed the opinion mat quality of service and supply rat parts is in many cases unsatis- | factory; that farmers are entit- | |led .to legislative protection | -|which will establish much more | iclearly-the rights of the farmer jand the responsi oe ty of the) oe and that th inister of ' Agriculture be askeed to intro-| duce legislation désigned.to pro- vide reasonablg protection to the purchaser.

9 Men Spend On Survey At

By JAMES NELSON - OTTAWA (CP) — Nine men, some of them from cozy, steam- heated government offices here, are spending two months in tents in central Labrador where the temperatures drop to 50 be- The brief was signed by J.A. Rodd, presidept and J, Lincoln |/0¥,,and none vi ‘ - Dewar, secretary. | milton River from the foot of

They are surveying land and ISLAND |Churchill Falls 200 miles to the) (Continued from page 1) she

last convention calling on the government to ‘‘enact legisla- tion which would enforce factual | interest rates to be disclosed in | all financial transactions.” The | preamble to the resolution stat- ed “certain financial institutions have adopted and operate a policy of including ‘convenience’ : charges in their interest rates, .and these interest rates are

water levels on the roaring Ha-

Falls has a 7,000,000-horsepower | potential, the greatest known potential, the greatest known but undeveloped hydro-electric |source left in the world.

Led by John Brown, 47;~an | 18-year veteran of topographical | surveys for the mines. depart- ment: here, the men are living in ia stark land of snow and ice, ‘winter - blackened forests, and wolves so unaccustomed to men

. they sit on their haunches and iat Keven, Ge the prospec watch them work.

The federation requested that MUST BE DONE ON FOOT | the present widow's ‘allowance! They began their trip Jan. 19/ of $65 per month be increased and plan to complete the 200 to $75 per enonth. jmiles by March 19. All -of it

A number of changes in the must be done on foot althoiigh Industrial Relations Act were |they have powered toboggans to | asked for* by the men jhaul supplies. Mainly the changes involved) lan Scott, 25, of Victoria, B.C.. voting and appeal rights of un-|an Ottawa - based tree. - lance | ion members, bargaining rights | {photographer, spent five weeks and strike rights. | with the team. He returned here

The federation called-for en- with first-hand accounts of nar- forcement of the Boiler Inspect- |row brusheg with freezing death, ions Act and the appointment of |@ make-do. meal of barbecued full-time employee in the de- {porcupine livers and lighting an partment of labor whose duties | jearly-morning fire without get- would be to impilement policies |ting out of a double sleeping laid down in the Industrial Re- | bag.

Tough Months — Churchill Falls

cold, and warmed and dried out before a fire.

COULDN'T RETURN The night after Mr.

Brown's frigid dip, his survey group found itself too far from the

base camp to return, and spent the night in a hastily - con- structed windbreak.

They had only half a sandwich each, saved from their lunch. George Shiwak. a Canadian la-

Happy Valley, Labrador, a a young porcupine out of a°

cut out its liver and cuted 4 it, on a stick over the fire.

Mr. Scott: said the worst me- ments of life with the survey party came at daybreak when * someone had to get: out of his warm sleeping bag to light a fire and thaw a pail of water, frozen solid during the night.

With practice, he found he could hump across the tent floor, ‘still in his double sleeping . bag, and light the fire with only a hand extended.

-MARITIMERS SCORE

WINNIPEG ‘(CP)—Doris Bail- lie Phillips of Halifax has won |the $100 first prize in the Mani- itoba Drama League's Canada- wide centenary play omer tion, it-was announced Second and third prizes were won by Gregory M. Cook of Dartmouth, N.S., for his entries Rex Rex and Soul and Body. First prize was for a play en titled The Night of the Be- trothal. .

| ; lations Act and the Mi The survey work entails mea- —— jsuring water and ground levels

ifrom bench-mark to beneh-mark jevery foot of the way along the turbulent river. It must be done in the dead of winter when the

_ROADS TAKE TOLL Traffic accidents in Japan

‘icilled 1,052 people and injured

30,519 in January of this year.

ice is thickest and can provide

and the “nastine dhuula be _|& path for men and machines. sued with other Atlantic provin.|_ But-the-raging water _under-

cut the ice. Feb. 15, Mr, Brown

fell thr He was out, le ough, Te ee | pulled

screaming

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Electronic equipment at NORAD’s _ Cheyenne _ Mountain headquarters is cushioned against shock by: 987 a

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Se- said the federation,

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| winds . 20: gusts to 40; diminish-

ing this evening to northwest 15;

low-high at Charlottetown -30-and |View of the accident prevention

35, Campbellton 28 and 35; out-

\the several or; look for a sunny becoming |cloudy in the iene: very [orvesmthent

mild.

Souris, appeared before Magis-| High tide today at Charlotte- trate James B. Johnston, QC, in town 7.51 a.m. and 6.29 p.m. At

Kings County Magistrate's court yesterday on f charge of illegal selling liquor.

The case, represented by Alli- | adjourned. -to-

Evidence was heard from Con- stables Rowan, Durling. Joseph

Halifax, N.S.

TO ONTARIO Mr. and Mrs. ae ae: ring, Murray Harbor and as. Carl Johnson, Monta- gue, for Ontario, where ther will visit: with rela- tives.

GUEST SPEAKER

Mrs. Evelyn Cudmore . was guest speaker at Ing of the Charl of the Canadian Association for Retarded Children’ which was held at the Legion Home recent- ly. Mrs. Cudmore spoke on her recent visit to a school for re- tarded children in Ontario.

CARD RESULTS Following are the results of the card party held in Marsh- field Hall last night in #id of the Marshfield Scout Troop Ladies first, Mrs. Leigh Frizzell; consolation, Mrs.- Alex Scott;

] NICHOLSON FUNERAL — |) The funeral for Mrs. R.H. art olson was held Tuesday, 1, 1966 from the Maclean Fun- | eral Home to the First Baptist | Church where service was con- | ducted by Rev. Malcolm Har- | low. an hymns | were: Lord Is My Shep- | herd—and- Abide -With_Me.’’ —At- tending in a body were members of the Department of | Publie Works, the Mayor and city council and the Dorcas Group of the Baptist Ladies Guild. Pall- . bearers were: Alfred MacNeill, ‘on Beéll, James Haslam, Lo- man MacAuley, Henry Peters, Brian Potter..Remains were fore | warded to St. John, ‘N.B. for. committal service.

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of the.Souris detachment of the | RC and Cst. _LaBobe of | Len- | nox Island. ~

The case- of John Alexander - Longaphie of Souris, charged | arch | with 1 similar offence, was ad- | | journed till March 16 for plea.

A charge of assault against Al- lan Wayne MacKenzie of Morell, saw his case adjourned to March 16 for trial in Souris. The. accus- | ed pleaded not _Sullty to the | charge:

Two residents a Souris were each fined $20 and_ costs on | charges of intoxication in a pub- | lic place. _-

The. Crown was represented by | Deputy Attorney-General J. Ar- | McGuigan, QC.

| arian ah cats help

000,000 industry in | cat food and medicines.

lmake recommendations with re- Rustico at 2.18 p.m. aa tae i to a ‘plan of action’. for

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side tide eighteen minutes than Charlottetown. Sun today at 6.45 a.m. (6: 06 6.06. p.m. m.

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gents’ first, Frank Gaudet; “con- solation, George McInnis; door prize, Hector Jenkins; freeze- out, Mrs. Irving Boswell and Mark Johnston.

NAMED SPEAKER

Davie Fulton, former Justice Minister in the ‘Diefenbaker gov- ernment is scheduled to speak @t the annual meeting, of the Prince Edward Iskand Young .. Progressive Conservatives ten- “ltatively set for April 2. The an- | nougcement| was made yester- | day from /Conservative head- quarters in Charlottetown. |

SPEEDING FINE. A fine of $15 and costs was | meted out to Carmen G. Dennis, O'Leary, when: he--appeared~ in- city police court yesterday be- fore Magistrate A. James Has- lam, QC, on a charge of speed- ing. Two résidents of Charlotte- town were each assessed $20 and costs or 30 days on convic- | tions of illegal possession of u- | quor.

INTERVIEW TONIGHT

Jack MacAndrew,. publicity | director of the Confederation Centre, will interview Brigadier W.W. Reid on ‘‘Gazette” tonight. | Brig. Reid will speak on scouting | and the Silver Wolf award which | he recently received. The 15 | minute interview was filmed | when the CBC crew...were’ here with their mobile cameras for the opening of the P.E.I. Legis-

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RING ROT The federation aan action at the -earliest. possible moment on the council's resolu- tion that the act referring to Lring rot be amended to include that any person having ring rot infected potatoes would dispose of them in a manner acceptable

The federation- —no_com- ment on the council’s resolution that, no seed potatoes other than certified or better be planted on P.E.1., though it did include this resolution in its brief.

Also included in the brief was. a resolution passed at the feder- ation’s annual meeting in Jan- uary dealing with farm machin- ery

The federation’s cesoletion ex-

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