The Handicraft Fair spon- sored by the Prince Edward Is- land Handicraft Council got underway at the Confederation Centre Foyer yesterday morn- ing. Members of the associat-

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GEORGETOWN The Georgetown Centennie! Commit- tee, unde: the chairmanship of Alex Arsenault, and a number of interested citizens, met in the Council Chambers on Thursday night.

In attendance was William L Meggison, a member of the Pro- vincial Centennial Grants Com- mittee Mr. Meggison briefed

the committee on a number of phases relative to the obtaining ef a Centennial grant for their project which is the reclaiming

NEW or

The Hon, Rene Trembiay,

Postmaster General, designa- ted January 19, 1066, as being the release date for two new stamps featuring the floral emblems and armorial bear- ings of the Provinces of Sas- katchewan and Alberta. These large size 5c stamps will. be the ninth and tenth. in the floral emblem series which began in May, 1064. The prairie lily was chosen as Sas- ” katchewan's floral emblem in 1941. This stamp is printed in brown, green and orange. Al- berta the wild rose as its official emblem in 1930, Tones of red and green were used to print this stamp.

LOCAL BRIEFS

VISITING RELATIVES William W. Murphy, 14 Spring Street,. left for Toronto where he will spend two weeks with his son and daughter-indaw, Mr

and Mrs. Eugene Murphy.

TOURS DEPOT — Prince Edward Island deputy minister of health, Dr. O.H. Cur- tis toured the Emergency Health Service Depot while in Ottawa recently, attending a meeting of the Dominion Council of Health.

PHOTO PRESENTED At a- brief - ceremony

yester- | day Mrs. Earl Baker of Char: |

lottetown, educational secretary of the Royal Edward Chapter of the IODF ioeae West Ken School with a largé, full color

framed photograph of Queen'®

Eliabeth IT.

FREE DOGS The canine population at the pound in Marshfield has reached crisis proportions, it was learn- ed.

Augustus Wilson reported that in order to ease the situation, dozs are available free of charge to residents of rural areas.

POTATO MOVEMENTS

A total of 2,173 carloads of potatoes have been shipped from this province in the current year compared with 2,594 carloads last year for a drop of 361. car- loads. Sevently-five pound bags of P.E.I. white potatoes are bringing $2.70 to $2.75 in Mon-

treal; $2.76 to $2.85 in Ottawa, |

and $2.75 to $2.90 in Toronto. The Market trend in all three cen- tres is steady, with Island pota- toes getting the highest price.

DISPLAYS WORK

jon have their work on dis play oe ee

displaying some of

Considers. Centennial

and developing of Kent Square to make it a public park.

It is necessary. for the local committee to prepare and for- ward a sketch of the proposed park, including size.

eventually installed. such as swings, picnic tables, bench- es and other aids to beautifica- tion such as trees, shrubs and walk’.

Within the next several days, a sufficient quantity of sketches of the area will be available to

on the sketches, their ideas of | what should be done. In this way it is hoped to receive a variety of ideas and suggestions even-

uitable and practic- able plan for the project.

ed over the site of Thursday and

‘ 4 estimated the amount of clay

fait ewe fill that -would-be needed to build {the vresent square up to the de- ; sired height

The services of a’ drainage engineer and a committee are to make ithe necessary endeavour to obtain those ser- ivices. From earlier representa- |tions made by the committee,

| Sufficient clay fill for the pro- lfect will be available from land ‘owned by the Prince Edward {Island Industrial which was former Town Com- mons lands.

ADD TO GRANT

The town council is the initiat- |

‘ing agency for the Centennial project and the residents of the

\Georgetown School District liv. |

‘ing outside the town and those residing in the Georgetown Roy- | jalty School District are being ta- iken into the project, with their written. permission, which will add to the number of persons on |

which the per capita grant may |

ibe bared The local Centennial commit- tee is committed to assume the responsibility of looki maintenance of the

The grant available for the |

project is based on an equal com tribution of one dollar per cap- ita from each of the federal, pro- |vincial and municipal govern performed

ments.

jsuch & pro} may come under ‘the Winter Works i sen, but the total contribution of the federal

government, including its grant

ceed 50 per cent of the the project.

Kent square is situated in center of the town and year:-since the town's- incotport- ation it was never utilized for the purpose for which the planners intended, due to the fact thet i is a low-lying area that requires filling and draining.

The eventual success and final- ization of the project plen will be more definitely assured if more citizens interest themselves in it by their attendance at fu- ture meetings of the Centennial comntittee, to which they are always welcome,

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A government engineer look-. is required | afrangements to ithe meeting wa~ informed that)

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Hits Mall Boxes When Tire Blows

| MONTAGUE\— Montague de. tachment RC investigat- ing two accidents which occur-

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Eastern and Central Districts The Guardian, Charlottetown, Sat.,Nov. 20, 1965. 5 the Maritimes for the first

October Fish Landing Worth $4,000, 000 See fer 3

HALIFAX — Total fish jan of polinck and fatlishes. The ‘ot 006,000 The figures for the |

\decrease in landed value for pe- lagic fish during the month ~s due to the decreased landings of mackerel. The scallop and oys ter fisheries accounted for the aapeeae shellfish landings for

October, compared with the pre- vious three years.

‘| Cumulative fish landings a

im their area.

The first one occurred at Sturgeon when a tire blew out

resulting in a 1962,car, reported. ‘ly driven by Horace Blair Senca baugh of Sturgeon, losing con-| trol of the vehicle which clipped off-four mail. boxes and caused damage to the extent of $350. He was alone at the time and was unhurt.

The second accident also on Wednesday at Wood Islands oc curred when a tractor trailer truck said to be driven by Eurie Nelson MacLean, 27, went out of control and rolled ocer several times. Mr. MacLean was

rushed to a Charlottetown hos- pital with undetermined injuries. Damage was estimated at $2000.

total ¢atch was above av

iby 18,300,000 pounds and

|000. Groundfish landings for Oc-

|tober were above the sveeee catch during years

colonial | 1962 to 1964 by 6,700,000 pounds

pattern of antique woodcraft. | and: $382,000. The month’s pela-

The fair closes this evening. |e agen soot sone Sos R ree : year October average by 6,300,-

WEATHER age gos value during the \game period by $14,000. Shellfish

(om pounds but below the aver- TORONTO (CP) — Tempera- landings for October were 232,-

\tures: 000 pounds and $241,000 thousand | | Low Oversight High Friday | doliars above the October 1082 to | | Dawson ikocs, . 16 -7 | 1964 average. | Vancouver 44.0... 53 | BIGGER LANDINGS | Victoria sebecteus 49 Sl | The increased groundfish jRegina ........... 15 =. 31s eateh during October was due to | {Winnipeg ........ -1 16 (the larger than normal landings — ba rettoees 37 42 MUA ohbcccconee % 29 ‘ tem- Montreal ......... a. eee BNBE eo ciccccccs 15 27 Sunny and cold weather is pre- |Fredericton ...... 26 29 = dicted throughout the district Saint John ........ % 31 Sunday. | Moncton sedececes 29 %” Regional forecasts: Baifar 6.6.0.6 coe 33 «4 Nova Scotia mainland and a ok aot eee = 37s prince Edward Island: ydney ew esse eee 41 | with a few cloudy periods. ; Yarmouth ...... 32 35 ~—s Winds westerly 15. Low-high at St. John’s ‘ by 45 | Halifax and Yarmouth 28 and 33, 39 ao~—« Kentville, New Glasgow and 88 0 Goshen 25 and 32, Charlottetown a 7 | 28 and 30. Outlook for Sunday. , 4 Surnv and cold. . c High tide today at Charlotte-

a ag a 8.42 om. a ustico at 318 a.m. and

Weather | on High tide Sunday at Chats lottetown 9.27 a.m. and 9.28 p.m. sure,, centred near Pittsburg, |At Rustico at 4.44 a.m. and 4.31 will move east and be centred p.m. Summerside tide eighteen | 300 miles south of Yarmouth, minutes later than Charlotte- N.S. this evening. Today should town. Sun rises today at 7.08 be a mainly cloudy day in Cape a.m. and sets at 4.54.p.m. Rises Breton, but mostly sunny else- Sunday at 7.04 a.m. and sets at where in the Marttimes, All |4.53 p.m. +

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HALAFAX office says an area of high pres-

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