if it’s Good For the Island The Guardian is For it
VOL. LXXV, NO. 78
Che Guardian
“Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew”
Department.
ARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1962.
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JOP AWARD WINNERS at the three-day regional Domin-
jon Drama Festival, which was |
completed at the Civie Audi-
, ‘orium in Summerside Satur- d-y are seen here with Miss rma Springford, (second mm right) as adjudicator. The
SUMMERSIDE BUREAU OF THE GUARDIAN | Summerside Little Theatre d’s production of ‘‘The Play's Thing’ carried off three / irds, as the P.E.I. Regional ¥ mjhion Drama Festival came )’ 4g close at the Summerside wie Auditorium on turday -vening with the presentation by ‘4e Charlottetown Little Theatre Guild, of ‘The Dover Road’’. Miss Norma Springford, | be- ore announcing the — winners, following her adjudication of the | ‘ird and final Play by the Char-
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best. actor award went to Peter Shama (left) for his por-
lottetown’s presentation of “The Dover Road’’, while be- side him is Miss Lois Hughes, of Montague, who won recog- nition for her role as mother
lottetown group, stated that these decisions were ones she | always dreaded, but that they | were particularly difficult on this occasion. The award for the best play. best visual effects, and the $100 prize by the Canad- ian Association of Broadcasters, all went to the Summerside entry, along with the best dir- ector award, captured by actor- director Ray Kaduck.
GRARLOTIRIONN WINNERS . the best actor and best | gates awards were won by
trayal of the butler in Char- |
Poy
y
in Saint Dunstan's University’s production of “Bl ‘Wed- ding’. Ray Kaduck, (right) | was adjudged best director, while his play, the Summer-
side entry. “The Play’s The Thing,” won the best play | award.
. hree Festival Awards Go
‘o S'side Theatre Guild i
the Charlottetown entries, with Lois Hughes’ portrayal of mother in Friday evening's ere of “Blood Wedding”, and Pet Shama, acting as the butler in|
“The Dover Road”, taking these | prizes.
The adjudicator's award, given to the actor best ne voice and diction, was award 0 Ron- ald Whelan for his an " “The | Moon” in Blood Weddi
Lieutenant-Governor w "1 te : | Hyndman ——_ the play award t ector ‘s Fg
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\, Ise Alarm Caused Alert:
Ut SAC Defence System
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington Star said Saturday fn a copyrighted story that a false signal at the height of the Berlin crisis last fall indicated the United States might be un- der attack and planes carrying hydrogen bombs rushed to the runways of Strategic Air Com- mand bases all over the world.
“The bombers did not take. off because it was a_ false alarm,” the story added.
Reporter Richard Fryklund wrote:
“The four harrowing minutes
that the alert lasted revealed a flaw in SAC and Air Defence Command communications. But it also showed that the safety devices that control our retalla- tory forces do work and it
* proved for the first time that SAC actually has half its bomb- ers on effective 12% - minute alert.’
__Fryklund’ S§ account continued:
It was 5 a.m. at Omaha, Neb. Underground, near the sleeping city SAC officers, were alert be-
ore the huge display boards aon would be used to plot the course of a global war.
BOARD LIGHTS UP
Suddenly lights on a signal board indicated that something had gone wrong with BMEW Ballistic Millile Early Warning System—the two giant radar stations designed to detec enemy missiles high aacross the Arctic wstes.
SAC officers understood that the signal could mean the sta- tions had been destroyed by the enemy.
If it was the start of an at-
tack, Sac had only minutes to |
act. Enamy intercontinental bal- listic missiles could land on the United’ States within 15 minutes
of the time they crossed the Arctic. The officers informed
New Propulsion Seen » or Mars Trip In 80's
\RIS (Reuters) Ameri- ear. space researcher Dr. Ernst Stuchlinger says men might be
to make return trips to | “Mas in ion propelled space ve- hicles by 1980 or 1985.
Five ships. oil weighing 360 tons, could make the round trip together so that crews c cross from one spaceship to an- other in case of trouble, he said.
Dr. Stuchlinger is director of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration re- search projects division at a Space flight centre at Hunts- ville. Ala
He spoke Saturday at a cere- received t
mony at which he annual French Prix Galabert for his “development o »on- é opulsion svster< for ; bi: . Said the journey to ars Would be made vossible * ‘he
propulsion of ionized atoms American scientists ‘ar fled ovt laboratory tests of
vw
Aire raft Corporation official says
on a company: |
Repo tented po chief spaceereal engineer R. A. Bailey said such satellites would be able to take
the launching of missiles reat submarines and land bases. Bailey envisioned the satel- aoe as rimless wheels —_ four es radiating from the com- aed | hub. The 50-ton space sta- tions would be manned a of a dozen men and would orbit the earth at an altitude of. about
2.000 miles.
Bailey said similar satellites also could be put to pe use.
SAC, Gen. and started a_ check ir Defence Command in Colorado
boss of Thomas
Power with
headquarters Springs, Colo.
The lines to ae fumed | were found to be dea
WERE TWO ANSWERS io could be two explana- ns for the dead lines and the sees on the oo — Either an attac
t way or there was a Malie: with
the equipment. Gen. Power could “ 7 . an explanation. He éhe red telephone iy pend } him with every SAC base in) | the world and ordered all bomb- | ers ft alert to taxi to the run- | ays and be ready for
=
For ly more than four | minutes war seamed possible. Then, just as suddenly as they
were broken, communications | | between SAC, BMEWS and the
| Air Defence Command were re- | the Oe | mead.
" was quickly clear that BMEWS was rmed after | | all, and no one had hit a | Springs. There was to war. The bombers did not take off. | presew OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — orl a tegaic Air Commnd headquar- | ters confirmed Sunday night |
crisis last fall i
dic:
be under attack. The SAC statement, by Maj.
John Oswald of the public re-
lations oe confirmed a Wash-
ington copyrighted story
e that planes ae ae hydrogen bombs r
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'o” SAC een sneoa the world,
Oswald, however, disputed |
| that it was for "oe than four | foow ned that i appeared a
<2 was a matter of seconds.”
“We contacted the bal- |
at missile early warning wel
. Greenland.
saiaesd it was still there al had not
attac aceful “Then we knew it was & com: | mun problem,”
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ST. LAWRENCE, NFLD. (CP) —A search for Martin Walsh. |
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8 Persons Are Killed At Crossing
DRUMMOND VILLE, Que.
(CP)—Eight persons died Sun- day when their car crashed into a train at a level crossing ea of this ea 85 miles east of Montreal. A provincial police spokesman id the victims, whose bodies were taken to nearby St. Cyr- », belonged to two families | from Thetford Mines, Que.
Names were being withheld | pending notification of next of | kin. No details of the ac- cident were available immedi- ately.
3 Childcen Die In Fire
WOODSTOCK, Ont. (OP)
ai rae gn early Sun-
which swept
tirough hee Th storey home
as their parents fled the house — ‘eget see children.
rie, 11, Jimmy,
| 7, ae Sheree, 5, children of
Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey Mc- Donald. The parents, and Donna,,
4, and Barbara, 3, were placed) under sedation and taken to a
r’s home,
The fire is believed to have started from a faulty space hea ater.
HALIFAX — (CP) — Heavy rain combined with melting | snow Sunday to cause serious
| flood conditions in wide sections of the Maritimes.
A 15-year-old girl was believed drowned when a flood-swollen river in northern Cape Breton | overran its banks and carried
away a a and a section of
a highwa
High wi is were accompany- ing the rainstorm and fishing v were racing for shelter ar the Nova Scotia south
Highways _ eastern New
e blocked.
A pened “a. water poured through the main street of
, NS. a et ay hg ed
to way of a oeaee nian flooding.
Flood conditions in Moncton
were described as the worst in
“living age += by Moncton alderman aughn Harvey. A dam in the cy’ s west end began seeping Sunday evening and a few hours later water was pour- ing through it. The water reach- ed halfway up the wall of a ser vice station and other buildings _on west Main Main street.
Aid Sent * TO Six Men an Ice Floe
:
ast | poured in
Basements.
In Sside Flooded
SUMMERSIDE BUREAU
OF THE GUARDIAN
| Serious wy was causing
concern in mmerside “e" night as rainfall aprpoached
total of three inches in little |more than a 24-hour period.
Scores of basements were | flooded as storm sewers were unable to cope with the extreme- | ly oe run-off.
Amalgamated Dairies on | atu Street east 10 -electric | motors at one time were under water in their basement boiler room, as a Summerside fire pumper steadily pumped 500
gallons a minute out but could little more than mainiain the water level at a depth of about two feet. through a basement drain connected to a _ storm
sewe:
* Greatest concern of flooding was the possible damage io basement heating units, and in at least one case, water level
was reported up to the base ment windows.
Every bit of pumping equip- ment and every available man was rushed into service but de- 'mand was far greater than the as rain | continued through the | day and evening more and more | homes reported flooding prob- | lems.
Rain fall recorded by the meteorological section at the | Summerside RCAF Station was 2.65 inches in mid-evening, and was expected to go to more than a total of three inches from the start of the rain mid- Saturday evening until it’s ex- pected cessation sometime dur- ing the night.
In a six-hour period from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. last evening, rainfall amounted to 1.26 inches.
FLOODS IN SHERWOOD
Flooding was also reporicd early this morning from Sher-
wood, One resident reported tat the water had backed up the street from Belvedere Cor- ner to past his residence on Ellis Road.
He said the water had backed into his driveway, into his gar- age and was starting to seep into his basement. It was al-
ready several inches deep in tne eanent he declared and rising fast.
e was mostly concerned with the damage to a clothes dryer, a freezer and a furnace which was likely to occur.
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Three Bridges Washed Away
jud-red water ¢
ALLISON and Ira C. for luck, as they face cam-
M. GILLIS. left, Lewis shake hands
paign in federal election ex pected soon, after winning Lib eral nominating convention it Queens County here Saturday
City And York Men Picked By Liberals
Allison M. Gillis, Charlotte- town and Ira Lewis, York, will
represent the Queens County Liberals in the next federal election. The lawyer-farmer
| pair won out here Saturday on | the first ballot in a nominating
ve over three other i
“Gillis polled ‘287 ‘votes, ae ue 286.
Other balloting results were B.B. Jones, Bunbury 196, Cecil A. Miller, Frenchfort 180, Har- vey Douglas, Parkdale
The trend to the 41- -year old Charlottetown wyer, Mr. Gillis, bares had Pps mn the st two day ae was Getienatie ‘tom ‘the start
But it was the peppy, enthus- ism-stirring remarks of r ewis which swings support quickly and effectively to the York man, who with his brother Claude own 600 acres of land. PROMISES EXCITEMENT
“If you nominate me this afternoon, there is going to be
Te
er foe som es mate
|munity Centre roared
some excitement in Queen County, and you ‘re going to b in it with me’, he said as crowd which packed the Cor its ay proval. “I've made = arrangement! with my brother to run th farm, and I’m going to put a my energy into this campaign, he emphasiz
“Tf I go into this campaig I'm going into it to win,” adde the 44-year-old York agriculturi: who stirred a new a) plause as he added “We ci elect two members in th y"’, after criticizing sever ly what he called the lack | action of the sitting Quee: members on several projects vital interest to the province Each nominee had five min tes to speak to the delegat prior to the balloting.
There were 488 voting de! gates regis
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