Sherbrooke daily record, 2 février 1959, lundi 2 février 1959

[" 1939\t\tFEBRUARY\t\t\t\t1939 S\tM\tT\tW\tT\tF\tS 1\t2\t3\t4\tS\t6\t7 8\t9\t10\t11\t12\t13\t14 15\t18\t17\t18\t19\t20\t21 22\t23\t24\t23\t26\t27\t28 Established 1897.Price: 5 Cents THE PAPER OF THE EASTERS TOWSSHIPS SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC, MONDAY.FEBRUARY I^^ MIU'FR Sunny\tmr»Uy cloudv »nd milder on Tue*»Uy; wind» *vHithuei.lorl,\\ 3(1 »nrt funty; low high it Sherbrooke kero tint 20.Sl*ty-Second Year Signals Not From Missing Ship Castro Squafters Get Own Farms HAVANA (AP)-FeJel Castro, his political revolution won, today launches an agrarian reform program that could prove a social revolution for Cuba's farmers.Castro flew to his home province of Oriente during the weekend to implement the program promised the tenant farmers and squatters who helped him overthrow Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship.Meanwhile, the war crimes trials of Batista supporters were expected to resume at full pace.Capt.Pedro Morejon, first to die in Havana\u2019s showcase trials, fell before a firing squad late Saturday, revolutionary sources said.To speed up the trials the government planned to set up six new tribunals in Havana, 10 in Santiago, and others elsewhere.CONTROLLED BY FEW During his stay in Oriente Castro planned to set in motion a vast program aimed at distributing millions of acres of undeveloped privately owned land to landless peasants.The government says fewer than 100 sugar producers and cattle barons control 50 per cent of the land in the eastern province, most of it undeveloped.Some government lands also are supported to be distributed.The revolutionary leader also is expected to launch a large-scale program for the building of homes, schools and medical rentres in the rugged Sierra Maestra mountains, Morejon, 38, a veteran of Batista\u2019s army, was executed in secrecy.The only witness, other than the firing squad, was Rev.Javier Arzuaga.He visited the condemned man twice in his cell Saturday and said his spirit was serene.Prison sources reported, however, that an hour before he was led out, Morejon had tried to hang himself with his belt.Police thwarted the suicide attempt.In a cell nearby was Maj.Jesus Sosa Blanco, still awaiting the outcome of his appeal from a death sentence given him in Havana's first show trial.Begins Land Reform Plan L ?RCAF Believe Radio In Another Aircraft; No Trace Of Hedtoft MAI IF AX \u2014 (CP) \u2014 RCAF Search and Re.-cue headquarter» here »aid todav they are now convinced that faint radin «igon!» heard earlier thi* morning were not trammitled by a lifeltoat from the Danish ship flans llrdtoft.An RCAF spokesman said the signals were picked up on a frequency normally used by aircraft sending \u2018'homing\u201d signals.Search officers agreed the signals heard at ( ireenland uvast stations ami ahoatd a search vessel were probably transmitted by an aircraft.Hie report bad sparked hope for the ilf* persons aboard ibe Hans Hedtoft, unbeard from since Fridav when she struck an iceberg smith of Greenland, LOVE THOSE OATS \u2014 A hungry mare and her colt nuzzle up to Hugh Colville to get fed.Colville, driving through a field north n| Calgary to feed his own horses, stopped to inspect a neighbor's stork.The mare, knowing the oats were in the car, stuck her head through the window to get at them.\t(CT Photo) 25 Survive Crash Of US Troop Plane While over central Texas, the plane radioed that it was icing heavily, was short of gasoline, and would attempt a landing at the Schreiner airport here.Opposition Defies Ban By Franco MADRID CAP) \u2014 Prominent liberals and rightists have defied Generalissimo Franco\u2019s ban on opposition political movements and formed a new party.So far there has been no retaliation from the government.Failure to take action would be interpreted as a sign of weakness.All political parties except the government Falange are banned in Spain.Nearly 100 army officers, bankers, lawyers, university professors and others formed the new party, called Unio Es-panola (Spanish Union) at a banquet Thursday in a Madrid hotel.Speakers included Joaquin Sa-trustegui Fernandez, a liberal - monarchist and member of a wealthy family of Basque industrialists, who in a strong speech said Franco had seized power illegally and kept his regime in office by force.He also criticized the government\u2019s economic policy, saying it was \"without present or future.\u201d The Spanish Union includes elements opposed to the regime ranging from the extreme right to rhe left.But four non-Commu-nist groups so far are not participating.The Socialists, Anarchists, leftwing Christian Democrats and Social Democrats.KERRVILLE, Tex.GAP) - A commercial DC-3 carrying 25 national guardsmen from Idaho crashed and burned in the central Texas hill country late Sunday night.Three men were S killed.Twenty \u2022 five men survived, j three of them relatively unin- j jured.The survivors, some of them severely hurt, managed to { escape the flaming wreckage af- j ter the ice - laden transport smashed into a hill 17 miles southeast of here in rugged coun- j try just before midnight.Rescuers found most of the sur-, vivors, muddy, soaked and bat- ! tered, huddled in a freezing rain j a short distance from the flam-1 ing wreckage.Nearly all were ; young, in their late teens or early | 20s.The plane, chartered from j ' General Airways of Portland, Ore., had left Boise, Idaho, ear-ilier in the day to take the men ! to an air force training school at | Lackland air force base, San An- i tonio.j.Bl.\t-zg;;- years for being an accessory Three Die In Fire ! after the fact.During the trial MANCHESTER, N.H., (AP)\u2014 : Hume admitted aiding in the Three persons died Saturday | diEPosa1 Betty's body.1 night in a general-alarm fire that ; Released a year ago Sunday raged through a four-storey room- from prison, Hume confessed in Seaway Terminal Ontario And Prairies Boost Lakehead Port Confessed Murderer Nabbed ZURICH, Switzerland (Reuters) Briton Donald Hume, who figured in one of Britain\u2019s most bizarre murder cases and now is wanted in connection with a British bank robbery, Sunday was charged with the murder of a Swiss cab driver.The cab driver was killed and a cashier wounded Friday following an unsuccessful attempt to rob a Zurich bank.In 1950 Hume was acquitted of the murder of car dealer Stanley Setty, but was sentenced to 12 ing house in below-freezing temperatures.Fire chief Edward J.Grady estimated the loss at $200,-000.He said the apparent cause was a compressor explosion in the cellar.a series of articles last summer in a London Sunday newspaper that he actually did kill Setty, dismembered his body, and dumped it into the English Channel from a plane.Inspirational Bill Of Rights Wanted By Ontario Lawyers Sally Dances On CHICAGO, (AP) \u2014 Sally Rand, who drew wolf whistles in the ; 1933 Chicago World Fair, is back with her fans in t Randolph Street saloon.When veteran newspaper men complained that her old act seemed much longer and much naughtier than her current six-minute performance, the still-shapely Sally replied: \"It's exactly the same act with the same music and the same time.It just seemed longer to you in 1933 be- HAMILTON (CP) \u2014 Ontario lawyers agreed Saturday the language of the proposed Canadian bill of rights should be more high-flown.Professor Stuart Ryan of Queen's University told the Ontario mid-winter meeting of the Canadian Bar Association, which concluded Saturday, the bill should be written in language that will \"stir the hearts of men.as well as protect the rights and freedoms.\u201d The delegates agreed, adopting a resolution urging the federal government to phrase the legislation \u201cin words embodying the full nobility of both the French and English language.\u201d As it stands, the professor said, the bill of rights is \"pedestrian, matter-of-fact and workaday,\u201d \"We want something that can be used to inspire children, be taught in schools: somethin; we can roll around our tongues and resouon t&ough our halls.'' Another resolution called on Justice Minister Fulton to bring in whatever legislation is required to guarantee that the chairmanship of conciliation and arbitration boards will be reserved for judges.Opponents of the motion argued vainly that judges brought their integrity into jeopardy and sacrificed the traditional independence of the judiciary by entering the arena of labor-management relations.Said Toronto labor lawyer Norman Mathews, one of the resolutions's sponsors: \"I resent any suggestion that a judge sitting on arbitration boards dealing with matters concerning large corporations.hundreds of employees and thousands of dollars, is sacrificing his integrity any more than if he were sitting in division courts, deciding whether Tom Smith should pay John Jones t WINNIPEG (CP)\u2014The provinces have joined and Uie cities of Port Arthur and Fort William in an attempt to find ways to use the Canadian Lakehead as a channel for western products into the St.Lawrence Seaway.Representatives of the four provinces and the Lakehead cities met here Saturday and formed the Canadian Lakehead Association to develop the Lakehead as a major deep-sea terminal after the opening of the seaway in June] The CLA will have temporary headquarters in Winnipeg.It will have no executive or policy-making powers but will serve as a clearing house where regional proposals on Lakehead development can be correlated.SEEK TRANSPORT SURVEY Delegates agreed the first big task is to seek a full survey of road and traffic potential between the West and the Lakehead, ; Earlier in the conference the delegates received a report from a study committee on the prob-iable effects of the seaway on Canada\u2019s grain trade.The committee, sponsored by the Canadian wheat board and the Winnipeg Grain Exchange, recommended revision of Can-, ada\u2019s policies on storage of ; United States grain in Eastern Canadian elevators.The report said it has been rc ported that 40 per cent o( storage space now being built in Eastern Canada had been reserved for U.S.grain.The committee was unable to confirm the reports, but it said some supervision of U.S.grain would be necessary.\"In order to provide for winter storage of Canadian grains .the storage of U.S.A.grain in eastern elevators should be prohibited for a period beginning Nov.15 and ending in March of the following year, said.STERN COMPETITORS It would be regrettable for seaway storage facilities to be \"immobilized by foreign grain being held in storage foe relatively | long periods of time.\"It is recognized .the seaway is a joint venture by two friendly countries who are also stern competitors in many phases Prairie I of world commerce, not the least Ontario | of which is trade in grain.\u201d The report said that during the coming season an important volume of Canadian grain will be taken aboard ocean vessels.The volume would have a competitive impact on rates and services and the changing situation must be watched closely by Canadian grain traders.The Lakehead delegates were also warned that the ports\u2019 facilities must be improved the competition of U.S.the Great Lakes.Mickey Cohen Bumped Off Bui Survives LOS ANGELES (AP)\u2014 Mickey Cohen got bumped off Sunday.Bumped off a chair, that is.The dapper ex-gambler was struck by a neighbor\u2019s car that lost its brakes on a corner and careened into the driveway of Cohen\u2019s home.Cohen was sitting in a wicker chair in the driveway with his back to the street.He was enjoying the sunshine and company of pretty Vawn Rogers 21.The car shoved Cohen and his chair 20 feel into a fence.\u201cYou never know when fate is going to come around after you,\u201d said Cohen, shaken but unhurt.HALIFAX \u2014 (CP) -spurred thr search today !o missing with > person hcavs sen* off Greenland.I he weak signals were Believed of the J./R') Ion Hedtoft.Iheie hod ship nr survivors since she hit the ire The signals were reported In two Danish radio r ations on the Greenland coast and the Danish motorship Umanak, which had swung off its Greenlar t Denmark run Sunday to join the search, RCAF Search and Rescue head quarters here were unable to confirm the reports.The first signals were hoard about 5 p.m.Sunday, and then! again between 10 and It p m.j Then they disappeared.WEAK AND IRREGULAR The Unvanak's radioman said the signals were sent by an untrained operator and were very weak and irregularly spaced.He said it appeared the sender was trying to transmit distress sig- j nais or a homing beacon.The signal came through as a confused jumble of dots and (lashes, without any apparent at i tempt to send a coherent tnev ! sage.The Umanak at the time was , 60 miles west of Greenland's Gape Farewell, and the signals apparently came from a posi j lion southwest of there.Green land experts in Copenhagen said it would have been possible for the Hcdtoft's lifeboats to have ; drifted that far west Continuing had weather re dueed the air search through Sun | day night to one RCAF plane.Danish and U.S.planes were to resume patrol at dawn.A search plane Friday reported it had spotted what could have ! been an overturned lifeboat near the Hcdtoft's last reported position in the North Atlantic.II was described as a double ended craft with a lengthwise black stripe.But the royal Greenland trading department said the missing to meet ship\u2019s lifeboats were all made ports on jof aluminum and were unpainted.| The U.S.Coast Guard cutter Campbell said today's search would be concentrated on the area where the object was sighted, weather and sea condi- | lions permitting.40 FOOT SEAS The Campbell, two Danish ships and the (icrnian vessel Poseidon searched until late Sun- A irpoit l fmnt radio sigoAls thr Dani- h ship I loirs Hedtoft, siih r il hit on itrliri^ l iidny in Groundhog Says: Six More Weeks Of Winter The prediction is six mor* ; weeks of winter' That is it you jo hr friend groundhog.Today, Feb.2.* Groundhog Day, the day when jthat furry hibernating creature i* supposed to pike his nose out of lus winter burrow (o »cr what (he Weather is tike.If lie aee* hi* shadow, Nek lie goes for another six weeks, He'd see it today If he were ! foolish enough to emerge from Dus sleepy hollow into the cold blast tli.il descended over (lie to hr hrrn Horn « lilrlio.sl no 11 m r of the men,icing ice floes around the Hcdtoft's last reported position.The Hedtoft, built with heaxy thiw am! stern and sivecinl com partments to co|w with Green land's winter seas, was on her maiden voyage back to Denmark Fridas when she radioed that she had lut an iceberg and was going down.She carried three light metal lifeboats t a pa tile of holding her 55 pas-engers and crew of 40, phis four small rubber rafts.Each lifeboat carried radio transmitters.and the rafts had eon timious emission beacon sets.No signals were heard.Tie e oast guard expressed doubt anyone could survive in the icy waters more than three hours c\\rn with watertight survival clothing.h Ida y throiu tiO - mile - an ! steered clear, 40-font waves and - hour winds.They however, of the John L.Lewis Seriously ill WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The physician of John E.Lewis described the 78-year-old president of the United Mine Workers as \"quite ill\u201d Sunday.Dr John Minor's report, came afier Lewis had an attack while under observation at Georgetown University Hospital.The nature of the attack was expected to he idetermined either today or Tues-; day.Economic Plan For The West i WASHINGTON (AP) A pro ' posed \"économie NATO\u201d Is re ported getting support in some quarters of the Eisenhower ad ministration.\u2019Plie proposal would have the ; economic group set up by North Atlantic Treaty Organization ; countries to bolster Western de j fences against Soviet economic pressures.Its purpose would be | to tighten trade restrictions with Die Communist bloc.The proposal would ball, if not reverse, the cautious relaxing of ! export curbs on shipments to the i Soviets.A high administration source, in discussing the plan.Indicated Hie attitude of official Washing ; ton on trade with the Commu ni.sls has not.changed since the j visit of Anastas I.Mikoyan, Russia\u2019s deputy premier.Mikoyan appealed for a trade expansion during his visit hero last month.A subcommittee of the president's National Security Council is reported making a critical re | view of last fall\u2019s decision to relax slightly controls on exports ! to the Communist countries.| One official said the aim would ¦ be to lighten the existing loose [and voluntary arrangements by ! which the Western countries collaborate on export curbs.GROUNDHOG ., .And Shadow weekend.Crystal clear and cold Has the prediction tor most of jthis area today.I.nsi night temperatures dropped to 27 below zero at the Lon-innxville Experimental Farm, not the eoblcsl shap of the season but enough to make (he groundhog theory seem believable.This inlensi cold settled over seven provinces from Manitoba to I Newfoundland early today, giving southern Ontario it' coldest ] night, of the winter and producing a rare three helnw-zero *t jsi.John's, Nfld.Al I a.m a moderating trend jliarl driven the mercury at Winnipeg to only four below zero -warmer than the previous night.Northern Ontario\u2019s 5-to-20 below readings also reflected a warmup.But in the south, the mercury was .scheduled to nosedive.At Toronto\u2019s Malton airport it was five below at midnight.Other parts of southern Ontario wero reporting Inn- down to 15 below.At t a.m., it was Hi below at Ottawa and 12 below at Montreal.The Arctic air, which dropped temperatures to 4r 80,1 Mrs.Ephrem Jacques.Representing local industry were: Mr.and I Mrs.George Morin, Mr.and Mrs.i JULIEN CLEMENT Rand President DR.GUY POIRIER Musical Director WATERLOO \u2014 The Waterloo cd lo standing room only.Jla mony Band held Ifa first in The band gave a splendid per door concert at the Star Theater, with a capacity audience cro\u2014d- Mrs.G.D.Harvey of Stan-year, $127.71.Mrs.Jewett, for bridge East, was the guest of the Vale Perkins Sunday School | Dr.and\tMrs.H.E.GUlander*\tr Sncnce\"\tMr\taii\u2019d Mr it\tBe ; An.hat^drrW0fni18\u2019andCediiS Thilp in\t\u2018/)wn f *Uend the\tUnger, Mr.\tand\tMrs.Henri Beau- for the year, $35.91, and dis- Kastcrn Star meeting.\tbien, Mr.and Mrs.R.Planck, Mr.bursements, $32.77.\tI Mr.John Woodard who has and Mrs, George Ewing, Mr.G Mrs.R.K Cowan, for the been a patient in the Sweetsburg ct(,wart\tMr\tq KonUine\tMr Mansonvillo Sunday School-atten- Hospital,\thas been released and\tand\u2018 Mrs, R0ger\tTrudeau and\tMr' dame, 18.receipts îcn^, and 8tay nK with Mr.ami Mrs.petf,r Cochrane, president of the disbursements $a0.12.The Lreas- Leon Lamothe\tJunior Chamber of Commerce, urcr, H.F.Cowan \u2022 Receipt* MUg Albia Gendreau and Mr.\t, After lunch, dancing was en* 7^ CANADA fvANOtNIli fOINT Al (joint All .SHG At* AN AtGUlUO\u2014 JOINT Al* tO*CI NAVY viSSItl *A$E ___ -IjcrluooUc ÏDatlp l\\fcoil) THE PAPER OF THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS MOM'W, KKR.fluty SHERBROOKE PURE MILK HIOH tiUAUT* OAlKV »\u2019ROOUC1S - LO II'»» Airport Construction Scheduled To Resume In Spring, Mayor Say: - \u2014\t-\tClearing and grubbing work, now at a standstill at the site of Sherbrooke % hitute Maqoq Vot©\tmunicipal airport, is expected to be resumed in early -piing.Mayor Vt mm tut Nade.iu de- M\\0OG**\u2014 Polls close at six clarecl this morning commenting on his talks with hederal 1 ransport Minister lires in o'clock on one of the most keen- Ottawa 1 hursday.\t.\t.\tis i r\tj m t < r t Is contended clccùons ever hold\t* mayor headed a delegation of Mdermen \\ aul Ueivais and Marcel >a\\ ard, who in this city.\taccompanied by Maurice Allatd, Sherbrooke Ml5, met with Mr.lires and other tians- Mayor Maurice Theroux and port department officials.three other candidates, former\tMayor Nadeau said the delegation was assured by Mr.lires that n w tenders to Mayor Erne.-t Simard, Aid Jean complete the preliminary work would be cal eel elut ing Api il.Loslier and Philias St-Jean are\tMr, Allard, who returned to the parliamentary session tod*\\\\.was not available for seeking the mayoralty.\tcomment on the meeting.¦ Plans for the construction of municipal airport were announced by Maurice G input s, e\\ Liberal MP for Sherbrooke, in Jan-uar>.Ifl.1)\".The rity subsequently .purchased the lard at the future site and the federal government granted the contract for clearing By BERT TRUDEL\ti tect the farmers of the province ment of central schools; stand- and grubbing the land.(Record Special Writer) against an unjust competition ard assessment of property on The calling of tenders for the Ql'EBEC\u2014The question of fed- caused by the imports into the which school taxes arc based; a construction of the runways was oral provincial relations has ex- province of the surplus chicken special tax on firms exploiting delayed twice in 1958 when it plodcd again in Quebec's political \u2019\"cat coming from the United natural resuorees and finally the was found that the contractor sky; Highlight of the past week\tStates.\u201d\tappointment of the one per cent\tcould not complete\tthe prolimi- in the Legislative Assembly\twas\tThus\tthe\tGovernment\tacknow-\tsales tax for primary education,\tnary work.Thursdav's debate around a\tL-b-\tlodged the\tproblem but\tdiffered\tplus the imposition everywhere\tAccording to the\tmayor, the ml motion requesting the\thelp\tsharply\ton\tthe means to find a\tof another one per cent in some\tdelegation was told\tby Mr.Hues of Ottawa to stop the dumping solution.And thereby hangs a localities, for of American surplus of chicken new- tale of an old stand on mat- tion.Lr \u2018'«A r/ ¦ 4r«'j Federal Provincial Relations Again Dominate Quebec Debates ¦ v,r## HT: ( \\UM\\ \\1 GUOl I\u2019 the Blue B ites, one of the features of the Sherbrooke above.In front is the ballerina.Hollande Rousseau.I inure skating Ulub lee ciiciiivnl, air pletured (Record Photo by Gerry I enuiy) secondary and provincial .uuu.oi v\twhat was now happening in the vvou would give scant protection to\te(Ulca,ion in this pro-i,he c0;-ts nf »«» ;\"rPort 'c-nninal.and turkey meat.\t! ters of federal The motion had been proposed Jurisdiction\ti\t, , c\u201eaa\u201ect.j by Alcide County (Abitibi-West) Tremier Duplessis sounded the f, 1 ?.\u2022___________.i.1 and stressed the fact that heavy keynote of the debate.'x'ci the imports in the past few months taunts of the Opposition, claim-were competing unfairly with the ing consideration of prerogatives business of Quebec breeders.Nobodv, including the govern- poultry breeders, he replied pin-ment.denied this was so.The Pricks inflicted on Ottawa would Liberal member for Brome gave ^\u2019\u2019P relation, and so ve pro-impressive figures showing that in 1958, based on official 1957 statistics, Quebec poultry breeders had lost an estimated $590.-000.Imports of chickens were in P°'vU 4 7HINK WHfR THC ' iNOINC CAUGHT J wnaevrir ncc y k vtoMAU MP WANTS CXOlSf TAX.ON COSMETICS ABoUSHCD ON TWE CjRqUNDS THAI THEY AKE NeCC«6iTlES i \u20184 '\t* V\u201e .PLANt CARSYINCj Russia;-» deputy PREMIER R3RCED IE LAND PUt VJ ENOtNt TKondLE Ike reaches MIDTERM AS, PRCfc'DE NT HEAP UN ES HERE ANP THERE English-Afrikaner Strife Unification Means Republic In South Africa JACOBY On Bridge DEFENSE SHOWS BRIDGE NETTLE Anjone, or at least any expert 'can work 'quecres, *nd plays and roups when declarer but really good defens» is the quintessence of bridge skill.West opened hi* king of hearts i agaiiut the three spade contract ! and shifted to his fourth be»t flub Fast won dummy's kin* with ' the ace and took stock of the situation, If We \u2022 held only five dubs I the hand w-as going down on al-I meat any line of defer**.If he held atx, a* was quite likely, F ist decided his best play was to return the queen of club* ralher , than to give hie partner a heart ruff.South trumped, cashed hi* ac* rod dummy's king of trumps and led the queen of diamonds.It held the trick as did the jack of diamonds which was played next.The three of hearls was led from dummy and Last cam* tip wuh another good play He play-ed the nine South played th» tack and West came up with the crusher.Hr refused to ruff.Now deelarer had no way to avoid losing three more tricks and his contract.CARD SENSE Q-The bidding has been: North East South West 1\tDmd.Pass 1 Heart Pass 2\tDmds.Pass 3 Dmds.Pas» 4 Dmds.Pass ?You, South, hold: Spades 8-7, Hearts K-J-8-5, Dia rnonds K-9-5-4, Clubs A-3-2.What do you do?By RUSSELL ELMAN PRETORIA, South Africa (CP) In his first broadcast a* prime minister, Hendrik Verwoerd rie dared the unification of the South African people can only come about with the establishment of a republic.Referring lo relations between Ihe 3,(10(1,00(1 English ¦ and \\fri-kaans \u2022 speaking South Africans, he said: \u2018\u2018Above everything, I look forward to the happy day when all will be so joined together into one people with two languagos, by a common patriotism; that I political differences that may exist will no longer be based on : sentiment but purely on differences of opinion on social and economic problems.\" #\t*\t41 Whether the creation of a re-public\u2014for which no date has yet hern announced \u2014 will produce i Ihe harmony the prime minister seeks is a matter of guesswork.At present, the Afrikaner and English - speaking South African associate in business, play on the same rugby loams, entertain in leaeh other's homes, intermarry land generally shat:- the same I views on racial policy.Approxi inalely 60 per cent speak Afri Ikaans and 40 per cent English as their home language Far more Afrikaners are bilin-glial but the gap is being nar-j rowed a* Afrikaans now is a ma-¦ jnr subjeel in all English medium schools Today knowledge of jboth tongues is a compulsory qualification for any government j job.In line with this trend towards bilingualism, the Afrikaans language, once rarely heard outside I the home, has assumed a new-j importance Although the.first THREAT or STRIKE, (Toronto Telegram) Hydro employees have the right, under Canadian law, to strike in support, of their dénia mis.But a greater responsibility to the publie than that owed by workers in private industry is inherent in employment in a public utility.The union's announcement that service In homes, hospitals and other institutions will be maintained in event of a strike recognizes this responsibility.Nonetheless, a strike would bring Ihe industrial and com mercial life of the province to a standstill.It would bring hardship and privation to many, And it would provoke strongly unfavorable public reaction.There is already talk of an early opening of tho Legis lature to deal wilh the dispute.On the other hand, Hydro management must not.exploit, the fact that public opinion would be outraged h> a strike in a vital service.If a special responsibility falls on the employee to avert a strike, it falls with equal weight on management.Hydro must deal with Ihe employees' demands on their merit.It shares fully with the employees Ihe responsibility for maintaining this essential public service.MOANS IN CHINA'S MESS HALLS (Kansas City Star) Hundreds of millions of Chinese no longer can meander | back lo Ihe family kitchen for a cup of tea.The Peiping gov- j eminent has abolished separate kitchens for families that have been dragooned into the new super-communistic system of communes.One of ihe features of the communes is the establishment of mess halls for group eating.Evidently the arrangement isn't popular.The mainland China press is giving much space to the mess hall problem.The food in many of these feeding places is said to he poor and the service even worse.F.xlandlords.former rich peasants, counter-revolutionaries and other malcontents were reported as the pre dominant element in 235 mess halls that came under investigation.Such persons *re classified officially as the scum of Communist society.What this rating really means is that these are Chinese most obviously dissatisfied with communism.Since this is the ease, it seems strange that malcontents would be assigned to the communal eating halls where they can probably do more to sabotage morale than anywhere else.In forcing multitudes to live and eat like ants, the Red Chi- i nese government is attempting to repeal human nature.If the commune system proves unworkable, nothing is likely to contribute more to its failure than the collective gripes and literal bellyaches of several hundred million Chinese who miss home-cooked meals prepared in tjjeur own jutchens.i Press Comments CITIZEN OE THE YEAR (Toronto Telegram) The choice of Maurice Rud-dick, Springhil! miner, as Can-atlas Citizen of Ihe Year by thousands of Telegram readers is a tribute to the courage of a community as well as the bravery of a man.Springhill has became more than the name of a town.It is a symbol of steadfastness under strain, deepening faith, patience, magnami-mity, spiritual life.Three times Sprijigbill was tested; first a mine tragedy two years ago, then a fire a year ago that gutted the major section of the town\u2019s main street, and last autumn Ihe \u201chump\u2019\u2019 that reverberated across the continent.From tragedy came suffering, and out of suffering resiliency, refusal to be beaten, the will to wrest victory from misfortune.The spiritual power of Spring-hill is now part of the fabric of Canadian character.It is fitting that one of its citizens should be selected as the No.1 Canadian of 1958.Maurice Ruddick.who now bears that distinction, was one of those miraculously rescued from the mine.In a real sense he was also a rescuer.He has been described by his fellow miners as a fortress of faith in the blackness of the pit.When food and drink were gone, he provided the sustenance of hope, When hope faded he sang, and with his song dis- pelled the darkness and lifted the heart.With him his buddies felt like ciphers that had numerals placed in front of them.Ruddick was not only an example to those who shared a time of testing with him.By his actions following the mine disaster he brought a lesson to all Canadians.As part Ne gro, he refused to stand aside when a segregated holiday was offered the rescued miners.Rebelling against prejudice with all his might, he nevertheless answered it with magnanimity.By so doing, he proved that the strongest weapon against intolerance is the self-respect that makes other men feel ashamed.This is citizenship of the highest order.Ruddick is an example of human dignily that cuts bigotry dow-n to size and identifies the narrowness and pettiness of it.The Telegram is delighted to bring this splendid citizen to Toronto, where the people of this city wilt be able to open J their hearts to him again.Here j he will be presented with the j plaque testifying that in his j own little corner a man can stand for a high and noble principle.complete Afrikaans diction ary has still to be published, new words are constantly being added; towns and streets are being renamed in Afrikaans; there are Afrikaans feature films, radio programs, and a budding literature.\u2022 « * In the past Ihe cities, apart from the old Boer republic capitals of Pretoria and Bloemfontein, were principally English \u2022 speaking.Today Afrikaners are streaming from Platteland farms to Johannesburg and even to Durban, heart of English-speaking South Africa.Since the war Afrikaner* have also taken a greater share in ' commerce and industry, parlictt-1 larly through their participation ' in government - sponsored enterprises, In politics approximately 90 per cent of the ruling Nationalist5 party and 60 per cent of the opposition United party are Afrikaners.There arc no English cabinet ministers and the United : party has an Afrikaans leader, Sir de Yilliers Graaf.Politics, tinged with sentiments rooted in the great trek and the Boer War, are the chief source of conflict beUveen the races.Differences are aired in Parliament, conversation and the newspapers.* * * English - speaking South Africans say a brand of \"Afrikaner\" nationalism is being promoted at Ihe expense of a unilcd white South Africa.They accuse the Nationalist government of pack ing the state-owned railways, police and civil service with Afrikaners; not.- encouraging European immigration \u2014 now about 10,000 a year\u2014for fear the ncwr comer* will be English-speaking and anti-N'ationalist; and of trying to safeguard the party's political supremacy by giving the vote to 18-year-olds, readjusting electoral constituencies and through threatened restrictions of the press and civil liberties.Afrikaners accuse the English-speaking population of having a divided loyalty between the Union and Britain.Although they were not born there, some South Africans refer to Britain as \u2018\u2018home;\u201d in Pietermaritzburg, NORTH\tS *K85 V\t6 4 3 2 ?\tQJ108 *K8 WEST\tEAST (D) A Q 3 2\tA 10 4 VK\tVA1Q98 ?743\t?K9 2 AJ975 32\t*AQ64 SOUTH A A J 7 6 3 V\tQ J 7 5 ?\tA65 A 10 No one vulnerable.North-South 60 on score.East South West North IV LA 2 A 2 ?3 A 3 A Pass Pass Pass Opening lead\u2014V K A\u2014Bid five diamonds.There is a bonus for game and you have all your previous bids and a trifle more.TODAY\u2019S QUESTION You hold the same hand and after your one heart response to his diamond opening your partner has bid one spade.What do you do now?Answer Tomorrow 1 capital of Natal, the Union Jack is still flown on the town hall al though no longer recognized a» 'one of South Africa's flags, FIERCE PROTESTS The recent abolition of God Save the Queen as the national anthem provoked fierce protests.In turn Afrikaners are eriti-eized for keeping alive bitter I memories of the Boer War.In Bloemfontein there is a Boer War museum and an obelisk to the j 26,320 women and children who died in British concentration camps An editor of an Afrikaans-lang-uage monthly magazine, however said the museum, obelisk, the great monument to the 1836 Voor-trekker pioneers in Pretoria and the preservation of the republican tradition of the old Boer states are the means of symbolizing his people's battle for nationhood.\"You must always remember we wore a crushed and defeated people in 1902,\u201d he said.\u201cWe i have preserved our national iden-Itity against bitter odds,\u201d \"We Need o Few More Suitcases\" Bygone Days THIRTY YEARS AGO Officers named for the Lad ies\u2019 Aid of the Bishop's Crossing Church were: Mr», de Grurhy, Mrs.R.C.Rolfe.Airs.F.C.Bishop, Mrs.H.R.Kenney and Mrs.R.Gilbert.The Supreme Connell of the Salvation Army is making a further effort to remove General Bramwell Booth from leadership of the organization.The General halted earlier moves through court action.TWENTY YEARS AGO The appeasement policies of the Chamberlain government have won a substantial vote of confidence in the House of Commons despite a Labor demand for intervention in the Spanish Civil War.TEN YEARS AGO Mr.Justice William Mitchell, newly-appointed justice of the Superior Court for the St.Francis District, will be sworn in at a ceremony here Feb.12.Believe it not\u2014last month's snowfall, 23 fnches.was more than the average monthly snowfall for the past thirty-five >**n.Dv B9U Him 4.fM® STom J NILA Service, mt. 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Bur-au and i* supplied lo The Record in the tnornin* through ihe courtesy of I oui' Philippe Uemers, director of the Sherbrooke Municipal tourist Office.Hillcrest\u201433' to * and one lift oper ate daily; slopes fair to cok! temp 9 below; roads slippery and dar ;erotis.Ml.Orford thickness, no New York Tug Crew's On Strike MW YORK AT' vie tugboats ami other (urlvt have voted to continue '.r.kc in the port of New Tno work stoppage by aaavr.a a /% a t a A .at \u2022 Financial & Market Report Women S ASSOC.Holds Meeting Al Bulwer ItiR E l N SHIELDS CANADIAN STOCK IXCHANGE members Ol 400 od< S-i\u2019uisi., vv S Of\t\tClosing\t11 » m ¦ er*R their York\tAnglo C.m Pulp \\ng.o V.Ul\t394 7 Si\t39 B 7 4 B \tcons Pit per\t43 \\\t44 4.000\tFol d \" \\\tm\tU5 ; ersfl\tMinn & AOnt !\t\u2018«per\t35 4 B mid\tIT .ide i s\tV\t39\t39'* CO.LTD I ___________ MONTREAL STOCK EXCHANGE Closing 11 a m m Harolde J.Savoy, St-Jean, Quebec.President of Gaz National Inc., has announced the election to the Board of Directors of Antoin* Biron.Q C.ilett\\ of Drummondville and former Mayor of Drummondville.Some additional directors elected were Gerard Favr*au (centre!.President, Fashion Craft Manufacturers Limited and John Donovan trightl, President, North (entrai Public Service ((Quebec) Inc., and of Donovan Construction Company (Canada) Limited.New Officers Elected For Trinity Church The annual congregational meeting of Trinity United Church was held recently in Wesley Hall.The chairman.Rev.R.Graham Barr, opened the meeting with prayes Baby Drops 6 Floors NEW YORK.(AP) \u2014 Police quoted a four-year \u2022 old girl as saying she dropped her baby brother from a sixth-floor window Saturday because he wouldn\u2019t stop crying.The three \u2022 months-old infant was killed when he landed in the courtyard.Police said the mother, Mrs.Avella Faison, had left her five children in her apartment after asking a neighbor to keep an eye on them.Three new elders elected for a three year term wore Barton ; Carr, Norman Skillen and E Bur rows.Re-elected were Senator C.B.Howard, S MacLean, Dr.E.A.Cooper.L.A.Curtis, Kenneth Halpenny and S.Fuller.Elected to the Board of Stewards were: T.tV.de Wolfe, George Johnson Gordon Pride and Dennis Major.Re-elected were: J.G.Armitage, A.Clark.W.E, Hodge.F.Loth-rop and L.McKee.Annual reports showed all church organizations had an ac-jtive year in their various fields.(Rev.F.R.Matthews closed the meeting with the Benediction Following the meeting, refreshments were served by the Women's Association, Mrs.R.G.Barr and Mrs.E.A Cooper pouring.BISHOP\u2019S UNIVERSITY WINTER CARNIVAL SKINNER-NADEAU TROPHY HOCKEY BISHOP S vs UNIVERSITY of SKERB.Sherbrooke Arena THURSDAY, FEB.5th, 7:30 General Admission, 75c Laval Vice-Rector Rev.R.Kolbec Dies QUEBEC (CP) \u2014 Rev.Robert Kolbec, vice - rector of Laval University, died Saturday after a long illness.He was 52.Father Kolbec started teaching at Laval in 1950 after teaching at the Quebec Seminary where ho took a classical course as a student.He was regent of the seminary from 1929 to 1935.Retired 4-H Club Secretary Dies OTTAWA (CP)\u2014A.E.Mac-Laurin, 72, general secretary of the Canadian Council of 4-H Clubs for 21 years before his rptiremon' in 1952, died Sunday in an Ottawa hospital.Mr.MacLaurin graduated from the University of Toronto in 1914 and in 1918 became a field officer with the federal agriculture department.108-Year Old Dies PONTIAC, Mich., (AP) \u2014 A 108-year - old negro woman who often told her friends to \u201cbe good and you\u2019ll live a long life,\u201d died Saturday night of a heart attack.\u2014 4,1 to 32 inch snow fell; hard snow on hard base, combination chair lift and T-bar and one tow operate daily; slopes good ; temp.5 below .r « ads g position, good salary, plus expenses and ear.Write in Fngllsh, staling ; age.exper ience and salary expected, i j VIoBin (Canada) limited, SI.Thoma>, ; ! Ontario,\t> 30.Farm Help Wanted Optometrists ALBERT TRUDEAU.Optomttrllt Continent*:\tfiulldinf! Sherbrooke Tel LO 2-0517 Eye» exainln.fi Textile Imports From Red China Evaluated Up OTTAWA (CP) \u2014 Imports of textiles from Communist China arc being rr evaluated upward to ___ put them on the same footing as 0 ,,ht Christmas ( \u2022cm- imports from the United States, ^a'n and Court Streets, and a I,,,, o.», ,\t.\taranf nf tirvi .MARRIKD man ihoroughly experien r1 \"\u2018V,'\t.une Uairv I Revenue Minister Nowlan said to! Box | in\tdav in tht* Commons.-.! ^ He was replying to Grant 27.Female Help Wanted ! Campbell (PC - Stormont) who ;said there has been an \u201calarm-$23\tweekly for\twearing\tlovely j ing\u201d\tincrease in textile imports ,i,-e»Sr,\tgiven I»\tyou\tas\tbunus.J from\tmainland\tChina.Mr.Nowlami said the govern- _____.ment\tis aware\tof the\tsituation.Eiock», I There had been\t\u201cvery,\tvery sub- Town Hall from Roxton Mill and Chair Co.as follows: 14 chairs for the caucus hall, $10.50 each: three chairs for the secretary's office, $30 each; eight chairs for the meeting hall, $25.80 each, and one at $30.60; and a table for the caucus hall, $118.Special accounts in connection with the new Town Hall were approved as follows: Bernier and Gagne Ltd., $24,300; Paul O, Tre panier.,1(540: Ambassador Manu taeturing Co., $889 80.Total $25 729.80.Receipts for November amount od to $6.489.81, made up principally of municipal tax collections which were $1,506.80.Sales taxes were $2,780.95.Bank balance as of November 30 was $2.378.39 It was decided to otter the Bates Manufacturing Co,, Lewis I !°n.Me, $175.000 for its Water I loo property.The .street survey made by Leon Dcsrochers was approved.The council accepted the town :eoat of arms designed by Andre Genest.St.Hyacinthe, at a cost of $650.The sum of $280 was voted to the Chamber of Com meree to help pay the expenses of the Christmas decorations on gCT t BOUGHT HAT iS, HÉ sons T.M5AN .WV OWN COUSIN VJOULOtsl'T AHY, NO \u2014-THIS IS NCT THU SAME 1 EXAMINED VSSTsRDAV/ THIS DIAMOND* IS NOT HI NO BUT PASTE A CLEV5K IMITATION OP \"He OTHEK IS SUT ABOUT AS VALUABLE AS A USED 0US TRANSFER ! X HOPE y T Been NXTIMITED SV A CONFIDENCE mam/ CK WOULD-: i «PUTT-TT/ uOü\u2019Vc BcEKi Radio Guide fhess program listings art supplied by tha station» and are published by the Sherbrooke Record as a servie* to it» readers They are subject to change without notice.lust show North American Fashion Frocks to friends.No canvassing, North American Fashion 4.Property For Sale PEPHF-vSSION .phoocy,