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“Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew”

VOL. ޤVI. NO. 316

Dalene Henderson. Miss Grey Cup. helps Maj. William Iiosty get the ball rollingfor the Salvation Army's Ch-rist- mas kettle campaign in her

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QUEBEC iCP)—More than 300 lay teachers stayed away from their classrooms at Ste. Foy Friday over a salary dis- pute and thousands of .-pupils at the Quebec suburb’: 21 Roman Catholic schools got a holiday that may continue.

The teachers held a meeting that extended into the afternoon and a spokesman said it will be reconvened Mond ay if the school board does not take any action towards settlement of the situation.

Although negotiations between the school board and the teach- ers‘ association had been con- tinuing since last May, Chair- man Maurlce Barbeau of the school commission said the as- sociation gave no advance warning of Friday's move.

IOFF JKTTLE cm

home town of Edmonton. The collections are used to aid the sick and needy. 19-year- old Miss Henderson. who plans to be a model and study art.

300 Lay Teachers Strike n Quebec Suburb Schools

usual Friday only

teachers.

teachers in Quebec ity. teacher receiving $6,000 in Ste

3‘

$7,500 in Quebec City.

PARITY NOW

For male teachers. the asso- ciation demands immediate par- ity. For female teachers, it seeks parity through a series of increases over three years.

Mr. Barbeau said the school board accepts the principle of

parity but wants the raises ex- tended over a period of two

Oswald Said linked With Sniper's Shot

WASHINGTON (AP) —- Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of John F. Kennedy. is

reported to have told his wife N

he tried to kill former Maj.-Gen. Edwin A. Walker with a rifle shot eight months ago.

The bullet. fired through a wt ow by an unseen sniper, narrowly missed Walker in his Dallas. 'l'ex.. home ril 10. Walker was cut by flying glass splinters.

Government a o u r e 0 5 said

has told federal agents

came home that night boasted excitedly of his t

o . , Neither the FBI nor the jus- tlce department confirmed this. But it was learned Friday the FBI has been investigating

assassin. a

and

0‘

this offshoot from the long

chain of circumstantial evidence

tying Oswald. 24. to the sniper-

slaying of Kennedy in Dallas ov. .

The episode is reported part of the I-‘BI's massive report on t e assassination. delivered Thursday to the justice depart- ment and shortly to go to the White House.

0th the Chicago Sun-Times and the Washington Evening Star published stories Friday of evidence that" Oswald fired the shot at Walker. an advocate of extreme right-wing politics. The ' ssocinted Press obtained con- firmation from two official sources.

The Star's story said ballistic tests q)parentl~y have been in- conclusive on whether the same rifle fired the shots at Kennedy and Walker.

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Sugar Prices lumble

$1.05 ll

MONTREAL (OP) — ‘fibres major Montreal sugar refineries --«st. Lawrence. Canada and Dominion and Atlantic -— Friday

dropped refined sugar 01.06 to $15.80 a loo-pound

spokesman for one refinery said the price of raw sugar on the world market in London dropped Friday and local refin- on were drowlns the Montreal ilflces

lunar prices reached their llidlust level since war when

hit nus last Oct. 81. price of refined sugar has I than shoa Jan. 1;;

c»... .

were paying I5 cents for a five- pound bag and for

undredweight

07 increases an decreases. It was 89.10 Jan. 1

Prices had been. Ileldil '0' bout two weeks. The last

:hanga was a is-cent hike Nov. the wholesale price of I.

A kesman for a retail food atn said Montreal consumers

$1.89 10

pounds of sugar I-'rldI¥~ H¢ "id the prices should drop to around he

antral for the adlllfim '

in New York rrum the retail price of sugar was 75 cents for a dive-wound bal-

aaloaclclaaalalliihsraat 0 Ottawa. -I for pay-aat of postage h cut.

The move affected 8.826 slu-‘years beginning next June 30 dents. who arrived at school as ' to be sent home by their principals. The payers. board‘: teaching personnel numbers 431. 325 of them lay

teachers‘ association is demanding parity in salary with A an agreement last. year whichf

would receive $7,000 or exp“-es

‘ u..r......l Gets ‘ Life Sentence _ For Slaying

MINNEAPOLIS rAPi———T. Eu- gene Thompson, found guilty of __ murder, was sentenced Friday ,, night to a life term in prison. ‘ The verdict. by a jury of six 4' men and six women. came nine months to the day after bludgeon - slaying Thompson's wife, Carol, 34. The jurors decided it had been engineered by the defendant.

Judge Rolf Fosseen com- mended jurors for their work.

The judge a sked whether Thompson had anything to tell the court.

“No." answered the defendant and sentence wa s imposed. There was no indication when he might start to serve the life term. The six-week trial went to the jury about 4 p.m. Thursday.

MURDER FOR HIRE

The prosecution called Mrs. Thompson’s death a murder-for- hire killing purchased by Thompson, 36, to reap more than $1,000,000 in insurance on her life and to free him for romance with a twice-married secretary.

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Parliament At A Glance

By THE CANADIAN PRESS FRIDAY. Dec. 6, 1963

A bill raising to $75 monthly from $65 special pensions for the needy aged, disabled and blind was introduced by Prime Minister Pearson. A

Gordon Churchill (PC—Win- nipeg South Centre) said cuts in the defence establishment nearly annihilate the nation's militia.

Associate Defence Minister Cardin said President Ken- nedy‘s assassination delayed shipment of nuclear warheads

was selected from among eight other contestants representing football clubs. at last week's Grey Cup festivities in Van- couver.

(GP Wirephoto)

CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1963

NOT MORE THAN

SEVEN CENTS 14 PAGES

Bigger Defence Cutbacks Expected In About Month

surgical

chief of

the heart. Dr.

velo

infarction.

supp

to Canada.

Andrew Brewin (NDP—Tnr- onto Greenwood) said he has a grave sense of disquiet at the NATO tasks assigned to C

Montcalm) said Lauzon, Que-.. shipyards should have built three subs now on order from gradually by the rate- Britain. “ ' ‘John R. Matheson _Leeds) said it is essential to keep the army brigade and RCAF air division in Europe's I NATO force. MONDAY, Dec. 9 The Commons meets at 2:30 p.m. to debate redistribution. The Senate stands adjourned until Tuesday at 3 p.m.

so the extra burden can be ab- sonbed

The teachers reject this for- mula. suggesting the board make a long-term loan to sat- isfy their demands.

The opposing factions signedl

next June 30. They . agreed then to resume negotla-l. tions on parity. 3

Pope Announces Jan. Dates

ST. JOHN'S. Nfld. four-year-old boy died in a fire which ‘destroyed a wooden house iL— ili"'lTl“e' cl-t'y‘s south eltd Friday

B ..

giht.

of acute

surgery at

them de-

The new experiment is aimed at tapping an abundant blood . ly in the left ventricle of

Twenty-two members of :line families were left homeless in the Fire which damaged "V9! company that was awarded the attached ‘houses.

A S9¢0lld Chllds 937"" T°"was allowed to negotiate their ported missing was rescue .

and Mrs.

Mrs. Stockrwood. her five-year

old child and her mother-in-law suffered undetermined injuries.

In medical terms, the surgery is concerned with

Vineberg made it clear that the worth ‘of the experi- ments. carried out on animal is still to be evaluated.

He spoke at a meeting of the ; doxes of nature." I-le likened it American College of Chest Phys to a man dying or thirst in the‘ sicians where he also described 3 desert ‘ operations—one of

the heart and allowing the blood

]Boy Loses Life, anada. P (PC H°'rne|e5S 's-.lo h ' n — .

J hflluilettsgp - E'gAe:somption- lfl Flra

lCPl—Ar questions before

lFor_ Holy Land Pilgrimage

VATICAN CITY lAP)—P0pe lcommemorating the carrying of . lPaul VI has set Jan. 4-6 for his | gifts by the three wise men to ’Holy Land pilgrimage. which :' the infant Jesus in Bethlehem. l one prelate said includes plans

The three-day srhedule militi- for an historic meeting with Or-

lplied the problems of logisiirr thodox leaders. security for those charged An Orthodox patriarch even ,with caring for the 66-year-old suggested a summit meeting of ‘spiritual head of 550,000,000 Ro- all major Christian faiths while man Catholics. the oman Catho ic pontif-f is in * divided Jerusalem. ‘MAY C3055 BORDER atican press announce-l It was assumed that he will ment Friday said Pope Paul cross the Israel-Jortlzln frontier. would leave Rome Jan. 4. a at- which is guarded by Israeli and urday. and return .Ian. 6. This Arab armies hostile to each would mean a journey by plane. the first air trip for a pope, since Jerusalem is 1,500 miles a

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Sources at Vatican City said a three-day trip—instead of the one» or two-day pilgrimage that most church circles had ex- the Vatican for two nights and-pected-—would give him time to will celebrate at least two-meet with orthodox leaders in masses in the Holy Land. Oriel Jerusalem. A Pope and an Or- will be on Jan. 6, the Romanltlhodox patriarch have not met Catholic feast of the Epiphany.‘ since the great schism of 1054.

ay. The pope will be away from

‘Fire Flares In London Air Terminal

LONDON (AP)-—A fire broke‘

out in the new seven-storey Lon-

don air terminal building early

today and engulfed the top four

floors.

A series of explosions in the

$14,000,000 building rocked the

neighborhood in London's popu-

S O C In

lous western district. Sparks showered surroundingr

The upper floors of the ing house mostly adminlstratioll

offices normally unoccupied at

night

build-

The building was opened only last month.

NOT TRIED ON HUMANS

Surgeon Describes Heart Cure Project

105 NNGELES. C8lif- ‘OP’--, to sutfuse into the infarcted. Results of s new experiment in rea treatment heart attacks were described'cllan-ges from Friday by Dr. Arthur Vineberg, ‘ pink, and there is the appear- cardiac Royal Victoria ]-lospltal in Mont- real.

Results have shown the area a blue color to

ance of bright red blood seeping

‘through the heart-muscle fibres. r. Vineberg reported.

The procedure is termed the

_ _ ‘cute mY°'rendocardial punch because a cardlal infarction — degenera-‘small Opemg 15 made by mm of the heart musde lnmlinstrument in the endocardium scar tissue because of coronary; artery disease with ilhe result that insufficient blood reaches

an

_tap ti blood in the heart's left cham-

her. The proximity of that blood supply to a blood-starved area

5' was described by Dr. Vineberg

e of the strangest. para-

while mater may be flowing a few feet underground

13 years ago—he has. - used in cases of humans suffer- beneath mm‘ ing from chronic myocardial-

Contract

l l L tional Social C r e d it

Robert Thompson, said Friday

he has placed 14 “critical ‘ the House of l Commons asking for the produc- l

tion of documents in connection} conflict of interests-v

with a $30,000,000 plant planned for

"This thing is d . said.

heavy wa Cape Breton. ynamite," he “The

in an interview.

contract, Deuterium of Canada.

"At three time none was

- r least one of the other‘? bids was lower at the- tenders closed andl the other companies! allowed to renegotiate; their bids after the deadline."i‘

Mr. Thompson said the com-I pany that was awarded thel contract was formed by an American citizen who gives his address as Winnipeg.

He said the government woului do well to take a second lookl

Bluenose Hos

Sailing Trials LUNENBURG. .\.'.s. «cm —.

Bluenose ll, replica of the fam-3,

ous Nova Scotia racing-fishing‘, schooner, made her second trip

under sail Friday and this time L

,In Bushland

everything went well. ‘

Thevessel ran into ball luck! on her first. trial run two we-eksl l

ago. A sail tipped when i-t hook-i

ed on a bolt and the bowtsprit broke.

Fouroftflentelnbensofthe

governors of the Prince Edward Island Teach- er's reduction are drown

here 3 they held Itelr an- nual meeting at the ’lbacher's Federation buitdin-g on Goal- ton Stroat last

(Oil! Sister

Si. Antoinette, R o c h f o r d

aflnfllhoy are Square; .1.

Week:

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TEACHERS FEDERATIO canons Ms

from left to right: Mrs Callaghan. Ebb!-fleet:

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Summerside Hilth School. and Charles (lamp- bel . lllllurell Regional H l g h Schod.

Regional

‘—inner layer of the heart—to‘ le supply of oxygenated’

Called Dynamite

CALGARY (CF) — The na-' leader}

1' l “The Montreal firm said to Th’ .Sllll to

Ethat is supposed to supply he

d d-d t t ‘ _ Gordon Churchill. fo r m e r‘ Churchill said he couldn't filannifv am },e,,2f,a,§°,.s°,';,d°’:'}{'§, Conservative defenc mlnlstr. : accept this statement. the aead“ne'set fm. tandem let go a heavy salvo or two by«‘_ Mr. l-lei er: ‘‘It is

‘Soldiers Seek

lcrashed. All its were ill

lI7 Ocean Ships

lbambert Locks at Montreal.

lKEN-NE-DY ST. IS O-PPOSED

SHERIBROOKE. Que. (CP) A p e t I ll 0 n is circulating among residents of First Ave

S Lean And Hard

nue here. opposing the citys. decision to rename the street John Fitzgerald K e n n e d y treet.

The decision was reached unanimously at a c o u n c it meeting Monday night in this city of 65,000 people, 85 miles east of Montreal.

One resident of the street. Sam Boisveri, said he signed

By DAVE MclNTOSH

OTTAWA lOPJ—Defence Min- ister Paul Hellyer will substi- tute a broad axe for pruning shears in about a month.

Informants said Friday the

'}iellyer will present to the cab- inet his recommendations to.‘ a _. new direction in defence policy.

In

Vinet will be able to deal with ,aecond phase of his cost-cutting these-—perhaps in January but. ‘operation involves reductions in ‘maybe not until February, .Canadian military contributions 1 once cabinet has approved a _ }to North American Air Defence new policy, Mr. llellyer will the protest because it was the Command and NATO’; Atlantic have 3 white paper prepared gm. fourth time the name hadiand European commands. .presentation to Parliament to- been changed in the last eight 3 They said the cuts announced rgether with his 1954-55 defencq years. 1b the minister Thursday. 'budget of around $1,560,ooo.0no. The petitions have been . amounting to housekeeping sav- circulated by the Sherbrooke -Tings of $52,000,000 a year begin- HST CHANGES chapter of the St. Jean Bap- ‘yning in 1964, represent a clear- informants indicated the new tiste Society, a French-Cana- ring away of the underbrush policy will encompass these dian patriotic organization. A lbefore the main felling 0D€l‘a- -points: A conventional as well‘ n. as nuclear role for the air divi-

society spokesman said it isl '

felt the city, in naming sion: Increased co - operation ; streets. “should honor figures ‘ with the U.S. in anti-submarine ‘ l warfare: Formation of an air-

from Quebec's past whose _ me;-its deserve 1-ecognmony -, Closing several radar stations borne army contingent for NATO -in the Pinetree network in or United Nations duty.

lsouthern Canada and of some There is apparently no lnten-'

stations in the mid - Canada‘tion of withdrawing the 6,000-

warning line along the 55th‘man army brigade from Eu-

parallel. rope. This was indicated by Mr. .Hellyer's announcement of pro

Informed sources said these further reductions appear 'kely:

The street n a m e d after President Kennedy was orig- inally called First Avenue . o h. th it St. Sacrement Street. then First Avenue.

3 Reduction in the number of ' committed to NA'1‘0‘s curement of the American M- 8 d lll Sl1iDS' Ii} armored personnel carrier 0 icrews. built up to full comple- -for the brigade. ’ ,ment during the Berlin crisis; once me policy has been 5eg_ ;two years ago. ‘weapons and equipment orders .1 Changes in the RCAF alzlwill follow. ldivision of CF-104 nuclear jet. Thus Mr. Hellyer‘s aim of in- -bombers in EllI‘0tl>e~ 0116 Of the ‘ creasing expenditures on equip- Possilbilities, informants say. 1| ment and reducing them in the lclosing the two bases in France personnel and maintenance field _,because the French government.wlll not begin to show results will not permit storage of; until well into next year American n u c l e a r warheads . on the basis of Thurgdgyg

at their decision and allow thel

“1esitimate" Canadian comrlan-~there. ‘cuts alone. former Conservative ies to renegotiate their bids. l M.r. He 1 lyer's reductions 5, defence minis“? 130118188 Hark. iTELLS or INTERESTS l'l‘~hursday dealt ml with ness said in an interview that- ‘ "If rumors are true," he said.t1‘¢59l‘V€ f0l‘C¢S Of the three Canada's influence in NATO will

services and some fixed instal- rdere.-rm-are, 11 Canada draw: iations of the regular forces. lpun its proper weight in the .1. minister. lheI‘P-‘fore. he-I ’ liance, its allies would pay scant deal publicly with his . attention to Canadian views, be regular ] said.

their] Mr. HelLver’s counter - argu-

i ment is that the former govern-

said that ment deferred action for nearly

"'1 am also concerned about a‘

‘constructing the plant and the . _ Nova Scotia light and power "'3'" blem‘ |company that is said to be forces themselves and lengaged to produce the steam °q“"pme';:1' ,are headed by the same in {mm 5°“r°e5

a .

, .. - . on e all the reductions have= f’ til th ‘ t

l bid after the deadline becauscl mall-ewould also like to find om C we years M e pom Wu Ed'W3I‘d Si00k'W0°d- 50“ 0‘? they did not have a complete‘ Mr. Everett_ Stock-j‘ bid in time wood, died in the fire. His body} was recovered

been taken care of to make the . reached wh ere housekeeping forces “lean and liard"—a fa-l costs were eating up nea-rly the vorite expression in the defence l entire defence budget.

PC Backbenche-rs Snipe At Hellyerr’s Cost Cuts

- OTTAWA = Conservative

about another company t

coal. _

Final decision on signing of the contracts would he made by the Atomic Energy Board, Mr. Thompson said. and he hoped the board didn't sign anything until further information was} given out.

"At the present time the contracts could not stand u

(OP|—+Progressivewnot been completed while he backbenchers_ ln‘was minister and therefore the under the scrutiny of the pubncfthlfidcommonsli‘ soltnei) téalrlytwairltileads could not be pro- . rm. . sniping rl'a.y a eence vl e . _ '{o:]lL‘:;‘;‘r:’l:“m:ad°s“£‘gh°w‘:;yb:h$.Mlnlster Hellyer 5. reduction of Mr. Cardin said the dum-pa I’: id 5' y ' 52.000, in military house- were not then ready because the 9 53 ' keeping costs. iprevious government h ad n‘! In Ouawm 3 government: It was the second day of the signed an agreement with the spokesman said Deuterium of id‘-‘f°“C° “bate-

way of intrjections. l-le accusediwhether you accept it or not.“ -the government of partial anni-‘ Mr. Churchill: "It is not hilation of the militia and artnue."

consequent crippling of survival 5 EXPECTED SOON Aircraft Parts ‘;‘t’f;:,f‘°“’ ‘" “’° °' "“°l°‘", Mr. Cardin said the nuclear

, S. lcustody-and - control agreement Nrgfihsrcsllltihiedpgladv Y:-jbh :.]hethU‘s' was siglledhfiui - v ec ca _ U‘ W mud an e necessary I

sn-3, Tmgru-;s1:;, _ rep)... ’‘‘''',‘,3’ “"°“ld be “"9 lagreements covering the Bo- Searchers Friday st2lll'l!ed cover- ‘my because the department"m3|'¢ and V"°d°° och mi Tl"

. . ly turning over some‘ - 3, 01.31“,

50 1 of b h.!‘‘’'‘5 “.‘°"° ragreemcnt covering e lidfid tosqu¢ldteer$i‘n? whellllervoperatimns ‘)0 other Kovemmentififi Expected 50 be comvloted pieces of a Trans-Canada Air,‘ge"c es‘ ‘ l '

Lines DC-8F broke off before itl crashed near this town north of; Montreal last Friday night. l

Five hundred paratroopers of- the Royal 22nd Regiment are

. short y. Mr. Smith said the‘ miililti: has Delivery of nuclear warllatg on "most severey s 8 en", for the Bomarc is e " The army reserve, cut to 30.000 , in very near future." from 51,000, had made it easller Dglivery had been delayefi ta ‘to obtain volunteers or he the assassination of Pres e t th h ' 1 Vmhlregular army. llfennedy. Authorization for de- auebgc cl!-’l‘l':V'lns(?le8lle Pblillg andl No answer had been supplied «;liV9l'y‘ Tl“-it be by "10 Dfelldfifl federal transport officials. ion what_ would become Cana- ;P€1‘50Yla Y- _ I id th A transport department spokes-ldlan shipyards. Mr. Smith sug- Ml‘. Cafdén h3l5°‘ Salim "15: man said the search will takesested Construction 0' met" ‘"3"’: t:°°'éF‘:‘('M“ 1°: hadnf been at least another week. -cha ‘Wt _ 9 ' - ' , "We want to find out if there ; REVWES Igsup; p°5s“bl.9 Ht" "al"ha%F'1J:enp“:t:_ was a breakup of the plane. in M,._ Chuwhm revived the 85 hilillf Y 8‘ ")9 Pl’ “do if “'9 mld 3“~V“““3 r nuclear debate with Associate ‘pee ' 5'-'.-'mll¢8"!- "'1 9 H’ WOW‘ ,, ‘ Defence Minister Cardin. QIIESTIONS snvmos *"°“3. °"'d°“°° °‘ ' ""°‘“‘“l’- r He said the government Mr. Smith said the commons 9 5‘“d- ‘should have obtained nuclearpwould have 1. lot more Conn. warheads by now for the B0- dence in Mr. l-lellyer's Thurs- marc anti-aircraft missile. V'no- day announcement "if we were (I00 let lnl£‘|'(‘9Pl0l‘. Cl"-i04 .l_€l assured the economies he talked bomber and Honest John artll- _abnut were real and that they