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ULTURE MINISTER SAYS
rict Measures Planned . Halt Potato Diseases
N MacLEOD
riot Staff Writer at plant diseases e Prince Edward _ industry out of riculture Minster Rae said that his will have to take sive measures” to ato diseases are even eliminated. eaking in the Leg- erday in reply to rom the Throne
t that a small per- e province’s potato come in contact or fected by disease, e attributed the ease to the increas- stom potato plant cutting machines. here to the ma- aid.
PROBLEM ed to be carriers of
improperly inspect | underground Thursday at the
rato bags that are ‘here are so many carrying potatoes nd and returning
bags that it is dif- ae
chedule ned slature
incial Legislature w schedule of sit- t, convenes next ling at 8 o'clock, lter Shaw announc- ng. | be held Monday the afternoon and day through Thurs-
er explained be unusual things will make it im- aintain that sched- it is the program .
irrangement “is ‘in- nake it easier for look after their bus-
other interests at : the time the leg- session.
lature meets this
ay and will adjourn
s Called
provements
th Rustico
APITAL BUREAU ' THE GUARDIAN Tenders have hy the department orks for improve- harbor at North ens County. sed improvements landing extension at
jore harbor. North | Ray Starratt, veteran telephone |
e of the leading fish- in the county and Island.
ll be received until
esday, March 21 by Mr. Starratt was secretary of |
of the works de- Ottawa. Plans and | of the work can rom Ottawa or from ‘ngineer in Charlo- t the North Rustico side post offices.
t. On Verge Of Boom, -
ficult to police the practice,” he
said.
“Measures will be taken, how-
Referring to a television broad- \east of George MacKay (L-4th Prince), Mr. MacRae gaid that
ever,"’ the minister’ said, “for Mr. MacKay had suggested that
the protection of the industry, the levy, set by
the P.E.I.
Office Deparimest- CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA,
The Dew”
narcdian
“Covers Prince Edward Island Like
WEA
THER
Sunny and colder; north winds 20 with gusts to 30. Low-high 15 and 28.
FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1962.
NOT WORE SEVEN CENTS
12 PAGES
Weather |95 Killed At New Yor As Jet Dives Into Inlet
Records Broken
By THE CANADIAN PRESS March came into Canada
and to maintain the excellent re- Potato Marketing Board, oD ‘hursd: mb— j a ’ lay like a la’ as cold putation of Island potatoes.’ It | potatoes shipped out of the pro as yesterday's left-over mutton.
was forecast in the Speech from
the Throne that legislation would when is a levy of one cent per most of the country and toppled | forthcoming to provide a | hundred pounds a levy of two records in Manitoba and Sas- |
be
vince was two per cent. “Since
greater measure of control over per cent?” asked Mr. MacRae.
potato disease.
(Continued on page 5, col. 2)
UK. Nuclear Device \s Tested In Nevada
| jish nuclear device was tested
U.S. testing site in Nevada.
An atomic energy announce- ; ment described the test as con- the United
ducted jointly by States and the United Kingdom.
| It.said the device was of low
yield, ‘meaning one with a ex-
plosive power of less than 20,000
tons of TNT. Some time ago,
WASHINGTON (AP)—A Brit-
the United
States and Britain reached an understanding that British scientists could use the U.S, un- derground testing site and that the United States could use British - held Christmas Island }in the Pacific for tests in the atmosphere.
The British use of the Nevada site appears to strengthen the authenticity of reports that the United States now is going to go ahead with tests in the at- mosphere,
5 Men Arrested
In N.B. Holdup
SAINT JOHN, N.B.
of the small West Saint John branch of the Bank of Nova | Scotia Thursday.
The arresis were made within
7 + three hours of the holdup, Po- rnment leader ex-|lice said .the...men. will be
fehargeds today, sea | Three of the
| Picked up in a Princess Street | rooming house after the land- lady reported seeing a ‘strange man” in one of her rented rooms. Two others were taken fo a King Street apartment fol- lowing a tip to police by a hotel | clerk.
Twenty-six people including a mother with a seven-month old baby spent a terrifying 20 min- utes in a stifling bank vault where they were forced by the holdup men.
Five men, all well dressed and one wearing a stocking over his head, entered the bank
shortly after 11 a.m. They pro-
Telephone Co. Employee Dies
AMHERST (CP) Gordon
company employee in Nova Scotia and Island, died in hospital
Thursday. He was 58.
here
the Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company when he retired several months ago be- cause of ill health, From 1931 to 1946 he was employed by the Island Telephone Company at | Charlottetown.
(cP) — hen it will adjourn| City police arrested five men following Monday and recovered an undisclosed portion of the $30.000 to $40,000 that }haul taken in an armed holdup
group were
Prince Edward |
; duced their weapons from a paper shopping bag and forced seven staff members and 17 customers to sit on the floor and two other staff members to open the safe in the vault.
POLICE ARRIVE FAST Then they bundled all staff members and customers into
the vault and locked it. Police a within five. minutes..of. notification at 11:21 a.m. The | alarm was sounded from within the vault.
Four of the men had revolv- ers and one a sawed-off shot- gun. “This is a stick’up’ one of the men told customer Jack Harley, 20, prodding him to- wards the rear of the bank. ‘Move and move lively,” said another levelling the shotgun at retired. railway worker Charles F. Cooey. One leaped over the counter and ransacked the teller’s tills.
Among the employees was Donald MacLeod, who was on the staff of the Paradise Row branch of the Bank of Nova Scotia when it was held up last September. That robbery netted two men $25,000. They have not been caught.
Thursday's holdup was the third in the Maritimes in the last six months, An unmasked gunman held up the Bank of Montreal branch at the navy | Shearwater base near Dart- mouth, N.S., in October and took $31,120. The bandit and an | accomplice were arrested and convicted.
Manager J. A, Field was one of the two forced to open the safe. He was then locked in the vault. Harry F. Farrell, mana- ger of the nearby Lancaster branch, had to be called to free the captives. |
Iget Address Predicts
| (CP)—Provincial economic growth consistent count - day - to - day running }
lan sees Ontario on a business boom fluence of govern- 1g and a hold-the- policy.
get address deliv- legislature Thurs-
1962-63 fiscal year | omplished without
said the budget |
aim will be “to
renewing his pro- 18nation summit pen the Matth 14
with the financial capacity of the province.”
“Through our economic coun- cil and various departments and agencies, discussions will be held with industry, manage- ment and labor on ways and
increasing the Canadian content of our products.”
Combined net ordinary and capital expenditures for the fis- cal year starting next April 1 is forecast to reach $1,126,000- 000, an increase of $128,900,000 from the deh just on
. Biggest le jump, - i will be in outlays for education.
expenses—of $432,000 on gross , revenues gross expenditures of $852,689- 000.
Mr. Allan predicted a surplus of $374,000 in 1962-63 from gross revenues of $1,005,408,060 and gross expenditures of $1,005,034 000.
PLAN NEW EXEMPTIONS
Several new exemptions will be allowed from the three-per- cent sales tax which went into force last Sept. 1, Designed mainly to help educational and religious institutions, hospitals and trappers, they will cut about $1,000,000 revenue from tHe tax, which is expected to yield $160,000,000 in: the fiscal | year ending March 31, 1963.
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The cold weather gripped
katchewan.
Only the Maritimes escaped | the chilling weather. But those | provinces and Newfoundland had a mixed-up pattern which brought snow, fog, light rain and overcast skies with a little
sun in between to many areas. |
The cold snap Thursday shat- tered records for March 1 in communities in the prairies and northwest Ontario.
In the Lakehead cities of Fort |
William and Port Arthur in Northwestern Ontario, the ther- mometer registered 25 degrees below zero, breaking by one de- gree the record established for March 1, 78 years ago. | SNAP MANY MARKS
In Manitoba, other low ords for March 1 also were broken. Here is a sample of the records with the old lows in brackets. Winnipeg 35 below (29 below in 1890); Brandon 46 be- low (30 below in 1925).
Further west, in Yorkton, Sask., the temperature dropped to 45 below, 20 degrees colder than the record low set in 1953. In other areas of Saskatchewan and in Alberta the story was the same — cold -- although no records were broken.
The cold even extended in British Columbia where tem- peratures on the coast fell be- low freezing and below zero in some interior points.
Ontario and Quebec also had their share of the cold. In parts of eastern Ontario, the tem- perature dropped from 32 above Wednesday to one below over- night. Thursday it was six above. But the temperature was expected to drop to 15 below Thursday night in the Ottawa area
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Parliament: ‘At A Glance
Melle oo .
By THE CANADIAN PRESS
THURSDAY, March 1, 1962 The Commons came within
| an inch of approving a bill
| that would extend the vote to 4,000 residents of the North- west Territories,
Maurice Bourget (L—Levis) called for a federal-provincial conference to discuss building a second Trarfs-Canada High-* way. ‘
| Works Minister Walker pre-
| dicted 1962 will see another year of heavy investment in housing across Canada.
Mr. Walker and a flock of
| opposition MPs traded bitter sallies during debate on works department appropriations for
Robert McCleave’ (PC—Hal- ifax) indicated there may be action within a week to revise the parliamentary divorce procedure.
FRIDAY, March 2
The Commons meets at 11 a.m. EST to continue the de- bate ‘on works department spending. The Senate stands adjourned until March 13.
eastern |
ree- |
COURSE OPENS FOR HOME-OWNERS
tral Mértgage and Housing Corporation, E.D. Brennan, centre information officer, | and R.F. Gagne, right, mana- ger of the Moncton Branch, look over some housing de- signs with E.A. Belliveau, vice-
Two members of the Cen- |
President, P.E.1. Housing Com- mission, Charlottetown, Mr. Brennan and Mr. Gagne spoke to those attending the opening of a seven-week course for persons who are building or buying a home. They dealt with methods of financing,
PAY SCHEDULE EXPLAINED
down payment requirements, ‘expanation of terms, mortag- ages, titles, insurance pre-
miums, and National Housing Act requirements. The course is being held at St. Dunstan’s University and is being spon- sored by the University’s In- stitute of Social Action
NoTeacher’sSupplement Required From District
By NEIL MATHESON Farm and Provincial Editor The government is paying|
generous supplementary allow- ances to school districts across the province—the districts don’t have to pay anything—Education
U.S. Bomb Test Planned In Air
WASHINGTON (CP) Pres- ident Kennedy has decided to detonate a relatively “clean” nuclear bomb in the atmosphere next month, ending a three-year U.S. moratorium on atmosph- eric testing, informants said Thursday.
At the same time the White House announced the president will make a 30 - minute national radio and television broadcast at 7 p.m. EST today on nuclear testing and disarmament.
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Minister L.G. Dewar told the provincial legislature yesterday as he chided them for being “grossly uninformed” when they charge the ‘ goveynment with failing to keep their election promise to pay supplements.
Dr. Dewar spoke for one hour in the Throne Speech Debate and will have the floor again when the debate is resumed. The House meets at 10 o'clock this morning.
LISTS EXAMPLES
The minister listed three ex- amples of how supplements have been increased.
A second class teacher with three years experience got $1,- 375 from the government in 19- 59 and there was no supplemen. tary allowance paid to the dis- trict, he said.
In 1960 the teacher got the same $1,375 plus $250 paid as supplementary allowance to the
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Hubert MacNeill, minister of health who was guest speaker,
Margaret Clark, Magdalen
Islands, Louise Anderson, | page 5)
district. In the present years the government pays the $1,375, plus the $250 paid last year to the district plus a further amount of $325 or a total of $575 supple- mentary allowance to the dis- trict over what was paid in 19- 59, he said
A “First Class A’ with four years experience got $1,625 in 1959, the district got nothing, in 1960 the district got $350 as a (Continued on page 3, col. 4)
Moslem Crowds Stone Patrols
ORAN, Algeria (Reuters) — French security forces opened fire Thursday with automatic weapons at Moslem _ crowds stoning military patrols after Moslem self - imposed restraint broke under European extrem- ist violence.
CERTIFICATES
Morell, and Dr. John Craig, director, division of \aborator- jes, chairman (See story on
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| One Man
By ARTHUR W. EVERETT
NEW YORK (AP) — A trans- continental jet airliner on a steep, rapid takeoff from Idle- wild Airport plunged nose first into hip-deep waters of a tidal inlet Thursday and blew apart in explosion and flames. All 95 persons aboard perished in the split second of impact.
The plane was American Air- lines Flight 1, a huge, trim Boe- ing 707 astro - jet, developed especially for speedier takeoffs from airports surrounded by residential areas. It took off | from Idlewild at 10:07 am. EST for Los Angeles, crashed about three minutes later.
Apparently no one on the ground saw the actual crash, al- though a number of persons saw the plane going down and heard it explode. But another airliner that took off moments \later afforded its passengers | and crew a ghastly birds - eye view of the worst U.S. air dis- aster involving a single aircraft.
There was not the slightest immediate clue as to the cause of the crash. The weather was nearly perfect, marred only by an icy wind. If pilot James Heist, 56, an American Airlines veteran, knew what went wrong, he died before he could radio back to the airport
Authorities hoped to recover the plane's flight recorder from the wreckage. It automatically records speed, altitude and other performance factors and, in the words of one official, would help establish ‘‘a very good picture of what happened to the aircraft from the takeoff |.to the time-of impact.” 0.
Among 87 passengers aboard the ill-fated jetliner was W. Al- ton Jones, board chairman of
Richfield Oil Company. The 71- year-old New York oil man was on his way to California to join | former President Eisenhower on a fishing trip into Mexican waters.
NOTHING TO RE E
A rescue force of 300 to 400 police and firemen was mobi- lized on the remote crash scene
Headed
For Cruise With lke
within half an hour, But in the words of Patrolman Arthur Ruddick, one of the first on the scene
“There te rescue,”’
Rescue gave way to recovery, with searchers carrying ashore pitiful scraps of human posses- sions, sodden from the brackish waters. Few of the bodies re- covered were intact.
The plane cleared a train trestle and a parkway in its take-off, then came down about a mile away from the roadway in the shallow waters of an- other inlet. It was so shattered that the largest piece of the $5,500,000 plane visible was no bigger than a small automobile,
The highest previous toll ex- acted in the crash of a single aircraft was 78, when a Trans World Airways Constellation plunged into a cornfield near Chicago’s Midway Airport last Sept. 1. Worst air disaster was a two-plane collision over New York in 1960 that claimed 134 lives .
DESCRIBES CRASH
The plane that took off im- mediately behind the doomed American jetliner was a Mo hawk Air Lines plane bound for upstate New York.
The Mohawk pilot, Capt. Rob- ert S, Harrar, 40, said the jet- liner dove to earth ‘in a com- pletely vertical position.”
A passenger on the Mohawk
was no one
plane, Joseph F. Farano, 32, said:
“It was as if something reached up from the earth,
grabbed its nose and pulled it down, The plane cr fectly perpendicularly, makin, a terrific splash as it plowed into the muddy swamp.” Patrolman Walter Ujazdowski relating how his patrol car hure ried to the scene over a wind- ing one-lane dirt road, said: “We saw no survivors. We saw a few parts of bodies, one a woman's. The plane was in pieces, no frame or anything intact. Then the airplane went up in flames. They drove us back.”
Other Air Disasters Recalled, Many In New York City Area
NEW YORK (CP-AP) New York City has had many air disasters through the years, in- cluding the world’s worst.
The most tragic of all oc- curred little more than a year ago, on Dec. 16, 1960, when a
United Air Lines DC-8 jet col- | lided with a Trans World Super- Constellation.
The dead totalled 134, includ- ing six persons on the ground
Before that, the heaviest toll
in a civilian air crash occurred on June 10, 1956. Again it was A collision of two planes, over Grand Canyon, and also in- volved Trans World and United Air Lines craft, killing 128 | Another of New York's worst | previous crashes was on Feb 3, 1959. Sixty-five persons were killed when an American Air- lines Lockheed Electra Turbo- jet plunged into the East River while attempting a landing at La Guardia airport
The record toll of life for a single plane was in the crash of a U.S. Air Force ©-124 near Tokyo, killing 129 servicemen, on June 18, 1953.
The worst previous disaster for a single commercial plane in the U.S. was last Sept. 1 All 78% aboard a four-engine
Delay In Causeway Report
TWA Constellation were killed when it fell to the earth about 10 miles west of Chicago’s Mid- way airport after taking off for Los Angeles
OTHER DISASTERS
Some other major air disas- ters
Nov. 8. 1961--77 of 79 persons perished in the crash of an Im- perial Airlines Constellation near Richmond. Va. All but three were young army re cruits.
Sept. 12, 19%61—77 killed in crash of a twin-jet Air France Caravelle near Ratat, Morocco.
Sept. 10, 1961—83 died when a chartered American plane plunged into the Shannon, Ire land, estuary. The plane was carrying Austrian and German farm families on a trip to the US
Aug. 14, 1958—99 lost whea KLM Superconstellation fell inte stormy Atlantic 130° miles off
Ireland's west coast
Aug. 11, 1957—79 killed when chartered Maritime Central Ait ways DC-4 crashed and burned near Issoudun, Quebec.
March 12, 1950—80 lives taken in crash of chartered plane near Cardiff, Wales
Is Referred To In Commons
OTTAWA (CP) opening ceremony for the Trans-Canada Highway, with all ;10 premiers attending, is planned for next September, | Works Minister Walker told the Commons Thursday | He said Prime Minister Dief- enbaker will open the highway | in the Rogers Pass section of
An official
the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia. All premiers would | be invited
By that time it would be pos sible to travel the whole 4,719- mile Trans-Canada route from coast to coast
Mr. Walker said however that completion of the highway as planned, by the deadline at the
| end of 1963, is doubtful in New foundiand and Quebec. The route through national
parks — the sole responsibility of the federal government—was expected to be completed this year except for top paving of | sections in Terra Nova Park in
Newfoundland and Glacier an@ Revelstoke parks in British Co lumbia
Maurice Bourget (L—Levis) said the government is avoid- ing a decision on the economie
feasibility of the causeway across Northumberland Strait to link Prince Edward Island with the mainland. There had been lots of time for an an- nouncement. Bui the goveri-e ment was hiding until the elee-
tion was past
Avalanche Toll May Reach 100
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Disaster relief teams struggled Thursday to find the dead and help sur- vivors at the mountain town of Conchucos, where up to 100 per- sons were reported oy Peru's second major eR im seven weeks. *