Two Cubans hijacked this htlcotpter in a bloody battle over the Atlantic Ocean ycs- terday and landed it at Key li‘cst airport. The pilot was killcd. Authorities sad the

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pilo:'s body and a fourth mun kins said no charges would abiatd the craft would be be made against the dotrct- rcturucd to Cuba. Two of the ors. The picture was taken (‘ubans asked for political by h‘ee lattce photographer

.‘t>_‘.lillil. Sheriff chry Hus-

Dick Agnew. «AP Wit'cpltotol.

MacNaught's Statement Raises Premier Shaw's Ire

taken

'Wl'l'lif‘l‘ that province that

to bc rawnl “unfounded”. The state- ntcnt was made _ Solicitor- tlcneral J. Watson .\1ac.\'au:lit in Ottawa.

Last week in the Legislature. the premier said he had learned unofficially Northnmbcr- land Ferries Limited and t‘ Idian National Railways ‘iad been instructed to raise thcir terry charges on vehicles and passengers. effective \1n)

"Our information." said rmer Shaw. “was that ' partment of transport structed the ferry raise their rates. There meeting in Moncton on t 10 between representarves the Wood island ferr‘cs attrl the (NR to discuss how the compan. ies should handle the farc creases."

Opposition Leader A \l' Math- eson asked the premier to give thtI source of the information rc- gnrding the llioncton meeting The premier said he was read mg from a memo given him by provincial transportation direct. or Graham Rogers

The premier said w‘icn it e heard of the proposed increases in ferry changes and whartugc charges on vehicles uszng the ferry wharves. he wrotc o Transport Minister P.ckcrsgill protesting the new rates “1 had a reply from Mr. Plt‘ki‘t‘sﬂ'll.” said the premier. “in which lt(‘ stated that immediate s t r- p > would be taken to amend th e regulations providing for the Increases."

TAKES EXCEPTION

“I take exception to 'he slate- nientt from Ottawa in ycstcrday Morning‘s paipcr suggcs‘ing my statement here last wool: on the

yt‘st or- R. tic-

ijception was .‘ by 1"

Shaw, ports es were

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[11“ posed llit'l‘f‘tiStS was 111 proposed increases were u n founded and untrue. 1 made a

true statement in this Home but my information Was unofficia.

"cstcmiiay. mcn‘bcr of the Legislature considered repct'ts

Shipping Future Seen Uncertain

MONTREAL tOP‘ -- F . Parsons. president of the Ship- ping Federation of Canada. s'ivs Canadian shippers have an "un- certain future."

lie told the fedct‘ation's 81st annual meeting that reduced European demands for g‘. and coal in 1963 offset the U‘tttts of the huge wheat sales to Rus- mi

J :1

The future is uncertain." ltc laid "it would appear that more grain will be requirt‘d by Russia from (‘aundn and to United States in 1964 But it an- pears unlikely that the demand will push the market as high as it was in October. 1963. for anv sustained period unless Flttrone encounters hard uintcr and the demand for grain and coal increases."

Aluminum Co. Increases Prices

PITTSBURGH tAPi minum Co. of America got into line with other major producers

'ursday and incre'iscd its price for basic aluminum ingot sold outside the United States to 24 cents a pound.

This represents an iricrcasc of I 'S cent a pound, The action Was taken. Alcoa said bow-us" the M-cent price posted by others recently appears to be holding firm.

Alcoa. the largest aluminum Producers in the US. said its US. price of 23'.- cents a pound will remain in effect. and adde "13' it contemplates no further

increase in its domestic ingot Price in the near future Other aluminum companies

31:": the name Us price 01.0mm TRAN Pvmmms A , in (‘aliforma's willie Mountains. It $.6th years. ll believed the oldest known

ll"I"! “In! on earth.

1: Cyprus Address

ot III-up select standing com-

The fisheries committee re- port. submitted by committee chairman Thomas Curran iPP- ‘er Kingsi, was read and ap- proved.

t‘omtiitttcc were that the provincial govern- ment co-opcrate with the feder- al government in the "further study of the quahaug and clam industry." as income from this source has been declining; and also ill a similar study of the oyster industry.

It was recommended that this province be made a separate

recommendations

fisheries inspection Also that continued assistance towards construction of bait

holding and ice making tlllits be. given and that assistance bc giv- en to providing more fresh wa er fa c i l i t i e s at fish landing ,points. i Pointing out that mine fish ‘landing points have road prob. :lems. the committee t‘t‘comtltc'l- ‘ded that special consideration be given to sub- grading .1 n d paving of roads to fish landings. The committee said 1i favors the imposition of a l'l-mile limit in Canadian waters.

touring Livestockmen

Continuing their Ontario tour. group lslattd livestock on Thursday viim'ted [ill . bee farm on“ Alec ()rd and Son. Angus. at Pus- i-nth. Tics was folltvwcd by a tour through the Ontario Agricul- (‘nllcge at Guelph as

LillafilS of the Ontario depart- ment of agriculture.

interest at the college centred on testing work being done with beef bulls. the large dairy herd. and a special swine project. After lunch served by th e meat laboratory department of the college. the group visited the sow farm operated by Allan Cooks of Fergus. Here are kept

' See Ontario Bee Farm

An interesting hour was also spent at the. Kitchener sal barns where every type of 1 stock is sold by auction.

Capping the day's activities was a visit to the ROP some test station at Waterloo. and the Waterloo cattle breedcrs nnu

Supper served by unit mem- .bers included delicious bakcd spare ribs and barbecued p i g

e s be-

tails.

Friday the island group were entertained by the Massey Fer- ;guson Company Limited.

Home Building [Shows Decline

(-vr‘r 200 sows cf the Landmacew

Yorkshire and English York- shire breeds.

ls Announced

(1T'1‘\WA '(‘T’l duin Army has issued instruc- lions on how to address let- tct‘s to Canadian servicemen serving in Cyprus.

Here's the correct form:

Number. rank. name

Unit

(‘anadian Contingent UN Cyp- rt

is Chl‘tl 3001 Canadian A r m e d Forces

Ovrsens.

The special postal rates now existing for service personnel serving abroad will apply to (‘yprus

These include a five-cent stamp for the airmail letter form available at post offices. 15 ccnts for ordinary airmail let- ters instead of the regular civil- ian rate of ‘33 cents per ha f- ouncc. and special rates on air parcc post

Quebec loan Bill

Made Retroactivel

QUEBEC tOPt—The Legisla- ttive Council w Quebec's upper

house — amended the govern‘l mcnt bill on loan raetices i " Thursday to make it retroactive to .1an__ . . INCLUSIVE Councillors said the amend- ment would prevent a flood i credit buying before the meas- Leave Borden ure takes effc t. The bill is designed to protect ‘ 7.00 am. 8.25 am. 10.05 am. 11.30 uh. 12.50 pm. borrowers against unscrupulous lpndprs‘ Om. of "5 provisinm is i 2.15 pm. 3.40 pm. 5.25 pm. 7.30 pm. 9.15 p m. that a debtor must have ROI days‘ notice before his property; L..v. O'D. Torm0nﬁn. m seized. i _ "A" N MF'" ‘. 7.00 am. 8.25 am. 10.05 am. 11.30 am. 12.50 pm ‘ “ ‘. 2.15 pm. 3.40 pm. 5.25 pm. 7.30 pm. 9.15 pm

LONDON tAPl—The Beatles singing quartet announced Wed- nesday they will share in the acquisition of British Lion Fit Their manager. Brian Epstein confirmed they had sep- arately invested in Woodfall Films-vone of the five groups associated with film producer sir Michael Bah-on in acquiring. the entire share capital of Brit-i ish Lion from the [metronom-E controlled NRIlOMI Film Our-1 .poration.

! Figures released yesterday

iShIIWOd that house building this

:yeatt‘ in Charlottetown and Suin-

‘lmct‘sidc is running behind the ‘('c set a year ago.

I The island's two main centres

icurrently have 53 units under

The Cana- ‘c‘ms'rumonv *‘ 33 in Charlotte- agrecd num

ltown and 20 in Summcrside lcompared with 92 in the same period last year. when the capi- tal city had 77 under construc- ‘iion and Summerside 15. 3 The. figures show 13 units com- .pleted since January of this iyear compared with 26 l 3 st tyear, Charlottetown has 12 coin- ipletions and Summerside one.

!..

} top??- 1

b to lie the handling of the heavy‘

Discussion 1 Slated On . Ferry Traffic

\\'ltcn delegatitms from tlle' provincial government and tthei Canadian National Railways: lilt‘t'i iti Borden today. the chief: of di-cussion is expected; ‘it‘ailc expected on the ferry. run between Borden and Cape’ Tormcntine this summer.

Other topics likely to receive

d|~.i|‘l(‘i. discussion are the availability oft mm

rccfcr cars and the CN's plan toi

cut rail service between Sum—= mcrside and Tignish early ini

Aprt , on

it is expected the governmenti will ask for a continuation o 1 daily service between the two‘ points. should spring weight re-l strictions force discontinuation of truck traffic on highways.

.1. David Stewart. provincial sccrctary. will head the govern-[ mettt delegation. Others in thel group will include the province's transportation director B. ra-I ham Rogers and William Hay-I ‘ward. business manager of the ‘(X‘ntennial committee. 1 1 Neither Premier Walter Sb 1 nor Resources Minister Leo Ros-i sitcr is expected to attend. I I H.C. Grayson. vice-president‘ for the (‘N's Atlantic region. will‘ lead the railway delegation. is i ‘lnnd superintendent Edgar Tay-j lot will also be a member.

Russians Call

Bomber Offer

Pentagon Trick GENEVA I'APl—The United.

States challenged the Soviet Un-i ion Thursday to join in destroy-I

ing 480 medium bombers from each of their nuclear air fleets and some of their mothballed

reserves over a two-year period. 1

But the Russians refused. say-i ing it was a Pentagon trick and that the US 8-47 Boeing Strato- jcts the Soviet Tupelov-16 lBadgcrs suggested for destruc“ ltion are obsolete anyway.

US delegate Adrian S. Fisheri presented the proposal at the 17- nattou disarmament conference.‘

Fisher said the US. would de-i stroy 20 8-475 a month for two years under strict observation if the Russians would do th same with their TU-lfis. 1

TIIRAIJ. FLEET T00

in addition. Fisher said, the‘

US is prepared to destroy an

. John

an-

The Guardian. ChAal‘llliit'IlHHI. Sat. Mar. 2]. 19m. 3

Kensington's Early History Outlined To Home & School

KENSINGTON ton in it‘s older days“ was the .toptc of an address by .lzmui.

. Saunders at thc Mar: It Home anti Schtrol matting he‘d in the Keusingam Elt‘nlt"1iat'y Scion-l Wednesday evening

Mr. Saunders who was intro- duccd by Austin Pcndcrgast. Luck his audience back 1341 years to “a little place mmt v surrounded by woods. tercd by lanes and paths". In 1817. he said. there were probably only four lioust's. and the place was called Fire Lanes End.

Among the earliest settlers was William Glover who came from Scotland and took up land. Part of the land and a. house built in 1870 is still own- ed by a descendant. Horace Glover. Mr. was the firs. postmaster. officially dc~ clared in 1851 and continuing

|in the house and the name un-

til the first built in 1927. Other early settlers Sitns from England Barrett from Ireland. very Mr. Bai'rett‘ bought up much of the land‘ and the name was changci to Barrett's Cross. in 1862 at a citizen‘s meeting the name was again changed. and namcd Kcnsington by Mrs. Thomas v‘iiiJlItS. lsTil.l.ERY T00 Through the years there were and hotc's. and at one two taverns and a dis-

post office was wct'c Mr and Mr. who was

time tillery. The first school was situated . or close to. the site now occupied by Dunning‘s garage. and the teacher was Master

three miles to the the business center

until 1873 when the first rail-i

way was built and ran through Kett-sington and Margate firms moved their operations to Ken- stnvEton.

In 1942 Kensington was in- cmporated with Dr. Donald barman as its ' mayo/r

These and many other interest- mg facts were told with wit.'y irteriections by Mr. Saunders who was thanked by Boyd Bea‘i't‘sto. president of the Home and School Association who presided and conducted a short business meeting. he “ A cup was won y Mrs. Lonnie room. SPELLING MATCH in the course of the meeting.

a spelling match was conduct-j

v Lorne Moasc. chairman

ed b. lot the education committee of1

the Centennial program. and Gcorge Doughari. Three schools participated. Kcnsin‘gton which won the greatest number

I of J‘points. Malpeque and Damley.i i rcpiesenring grades 5. 6. 7 and‘

Kensington pupils were Mei- liissa Mayhew. Rita Shields“ Anne Moore and Nancy Hard-

MEETING ANNOUNCED MONTREAL ‘CT’taThe iernational Air Transport Asso-

ciation announced Thursday its. ‘supersonic advisory

committee will meet in New York next Monday and Tuesday to exam- ine details of the United States and British-French supersonic airliners now being developed. .IATA. an organization of most major world airlines. said in a statement the committee will examine potential technical dif- ficulties of the designs.

"Kt‘lt~:tti:-i

Webster's .

ln- '

ing: Malpcquc —— lrenc Bi yanton. Earle Woorlside, Shirley Bryanun and Joint \1:.c(;ougan; Darnlcy — Kay 3

Hardin-g. Ntrma litckcy. Karen Hardin);v and Joan Champion.

Also duri the I awards were presented

the Kcnsington area. Moase said that notice of the competition had been sent to all the schools in the Kli‘illt-

stiigton atea. but response ha'i been poor from the rural 1 schools. 1

i This picture a Patti-vi?“ snichetu—thc Winning t'lll"\' In thr recent Charloitcmwn

ESSAY WINNERS Following are the names of- t 9 winners. their grades and sullit‘t'is of rhci'r essays: 'acTes 9-10. '

; 3, Lyda Hunter. among the Annals of Ken- 7-H - . Gordon ('mzier. 7. Sir Charles Tupper. 2. Rc‘hany MacKay, 8. From “c to Sea; 3, Barbara . 8. Cradle of Confeder-

Raised For

OTTAWA ‘(lP i—The proposed Batik of Western Canada has raised nearly

for ptosnecttvc

Aulrl. ation.

Grades Pttyttt or.

. t (It'

S13, bank

545 1. Elizabeth ti. Spring Brook 0mm Swiml' Th" cnllf“l”"'ll " stock and would have Canada; ‘2. Bcbby Murphy. Hm" mm” my”, 0,. inherit-"anon on Print? 3' shareholriers. the Senate .iar:i Island; 3. isohel Crorier. ing and (Innnnpt'r‘e ivoynmitice 6. the Story of Confederation. hm how “9;

Judges of essays were Mrs.‘ Sim-tat.- _\i(‘}\'n|ghi Sipvmis Roiicrt (‘arrIt hcrs. Mrs. Hat‘t 1d .7.ypai~—old Toronto lawyer and Land and Miss Jeanette Orr. financier who leads the pet'ttnw

Pttzes weJ' presented ers for the new bank charter. tltn‘ .lunf'or art for grades 1. 2. ‘gave the committee the Intan- 3 an . oreen Corkum. cial background as he appeared . 2. Joy Beairsto, 3; 3. John along with James F. roync. for- l‘ayuter, 2. mer governor of the Bank of

The toilowiug received honor- Canada. ablc mention for essay wrtt- Mr Stevens president of m“- Mel'lS-‘a Mayhmv- grade "v British international Finance tCanadai Limited which. be ex-

1 3’ 5. <

'E' e-e

m 9’. If :3

in:

Marilyn Ca when. 8. G‘rva plaiued. is not British. not in- ltams Road School; Donnie ternattonai and not financial. it Boyle 5. Kensington Elemcnt- was set up in

my School. Art judge. was Ray including Mr Smith.

l t

her of 8-475 in its mothball reserve to balance ant equal mbcr of mothballed:

TU-ltis destroyed by the Bus- sians. .

Soviet delegate Semyon K.‘. Tsarapkin said this was an at-i tempt to fool public opinion into. believing that the scrapping of. obsolete planes was an agreed' measure of disarmament. ’

e RIGHT It WRIGHT shoes

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TEN ROUND TRIPS DAILY

oQ/cfx

J Improved Ferry Service Burden-Cape Tormentine

‘ LOCAL TIMES SHOWN—DAYLIGHT OR STANDARD—

‘ WHICHEVER IS IN EFFECT

Canadian National

' WILL SHE WAKE‘NI?‘

Rex P. Nesbitt of Winnumn 1n

Camera Club competition "llumor"—\cas submitted by Gordon White. Mr, White also

lzad the second-place print,

and Mrs. lhf.‘ third.

Florence Masher.

9" . . [of Wellington Financial Corpo- ration Limited. 40 per cent of York Trust and Savings Corpo- ration. and '2!) per cent of Cana- d

ian Finance and investments Limite

These are the three compa- niesw and .\1r Stevens is ident of all three~wbo dove the initial financing.

Mr. Coyne is a director and

New Bank

buy substantial interests in (‘a- . na‘man mncems chairman of York Trust ‘.\ir.

British international now NeShltt is vice‘DI‘f‘Wleni and a owns 40 per cent of the equity director of Canadian Finance.

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THIS WEEKEND MacKENZIE’S PHARMACY

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