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Maritimes CAPE BRETON Thi County Council has banned the kale of firework! The deep freeze ha caught Loulsbourg Harbor lor the first time In memory 1 Thii hu been the coldest Winter on record More than 301 assessment appeals have been filed with County Council Too much snow and too little money was New Waterford Mayor Mae Neil's explanation for poor condition of town streets. SACKVILLE Cissy Luk, 22-year-old Arts senior from Hong Kong was chosen Queen of the Mount Allison University Carnival. Miss Luk is studying for a double major in history and psychology. She plans post-graduate work in education before returning to China to teach. FREDER1CTON All operators of school conveyance vehicles will be required to take a driver's examination before they are issued with their new licences.

Education Minister Irwin said examiners have been appointed for various areas of the provinces. CHARLOTTETOWN Prince Edward Island needs a new ice-breaking ferry, says Robert GrindUy, Conservative, Second Prince. His resolution advocating a second boat for the Borden-Cape Tormentine run was unanimously approved in the Legislature. row" lW'Pr---: MEMORIAL! uNis-Fgm: of the bridge last year. ST.

JOHN'S Thousands of robins stayed in Newfoundland this Winter. The robins passed up a stay in the south because of the abundant dog berry crop. Northern Affairs biologist Les Tuck said they have been observed on the west coast In flocks of 50 to 100. "Never before have we recorded so he said. Quebec VERDUN Liberal MP Guy Rouleau, In a radio speech over CKVL, Verdun, predicted that the Federal Government would call an election for next June 12.

He hinted at "furious activity" In the chief electoral officer's office, plus the fact that "something transpired" during last Fall's session of the House, as reasons for his prediction. MONTREAL Swiss-bom mechanic Bepl Corti, who went back to work in defiance of union wishes after criticizing Canadian labor on a CBC television program, said: The trouble all started because I was working harder and faster than them." He was referring to six fellow employes of the Tumbull Elevator Company, who quit their Jobs when Corti returned to work QUEBEC CITY The Quebec Provincial Police is changing its uniform color from khaki to olive green. Director Josaphat Brunet has announced. This will prevent confusion with municipal police forces, he said. A study Is being undertaken in view of possible reorganization of the force, more along RCMP lines, the director added.

RIMOUSKI The Federal Government may soon provide a year-round ferry service between Pointe-au-Pere on the Gaspe, and Baie the North Shore, Transport Minister Balcer tola" a meeting of the Rimouski Chamber of Commerce. A utilitariari-type ship, to carry cargo, automobiles, trucks and passengers, would be built to cross the 35-mile stretch of river. ST. JOHNS-Preliminary hearing of Montreal lawyer Jean-Maria Bertault, charged with fabricating evidence In the trial of St. Johns' alderman Edouard Fortier, was set for March 6.

Fortier was found not guilty, of illegal possession of alcohol on June 22 last year, date of the last Quebec provincial election. 1 Ontario SARNIA Secondary school teachers here have received big boost. It sets the maximum for principals at $13,100 and for vice-principals $11,400. Both principals and vice-principals will receive annual Increments of $500 to the maximum while other teachers receive $300 a year boosts to their maximum. WOODSTOCK The Board of Education here has been worried by reports that the legal age for leaving school was to be, raised from 16 to Education Minister Robarts has assured the board no such legislation is being' considered.

The board has been worried about the thousands of "seat warmers" that would be left burdening schools until they have reached 18. NORTH BAY Northern Ontario, a stronghold of Federal Liberalism, is to be one of the prime targets of the Conservatives in the next campaign for Federal elections. National Director Allister Grosart has told PC association members her the Prime Minister may visit this city soon to start the campaigning. PORT ARTHUR James Poling, 18, has been acquitted on a charge of criminal negligence In the hunting accident death of Irvine Bowie, 60, of Fort William. Bowie was shot while he lay on the ground ST.

JOHN'S Memorial University is bursting at the seams. More than 1,300 are registered this year, largest, number of students ever. Five new buildings now under construction will be ready next September to I ease the overcrowding. TheyJ nciuoe arts, science, norary, gym and heating plant structures. GRANVILLE FERRY Steel spans from the bridge over the Annapolis river will be used where suitable on feeondary roads.

Highways Minister Smith said the spans will be salvaged and re-erected. They were not damaged in the collapse resting his head on a man was wearing a red checkered coat A Supreme Court Jury deliberated two hours before returning the not guilty verdict ACTON A man who lived three years in a cave near here "because didn't want to bother anybody" has found a new horn in the Halton County Home for the Aged. Police charged 69-year-old Archibald Shaw, a First World War veteran, with vagrancy when they found him living near the Acton dump. The courts have found room for him in the home for the aged. During his stay In the cava he had boards to.

sleep on annate what he could scrounge around the dump. SUDBURY This Northern Ontario city hasnl teen complaining but it hasn't got its share of snow for this year. Average snow fall her for the whole Winter Is 76 9 Inches and during the past two years over 100 inches feU each Winter. So far this Winter only 32.5 Inches have fallen. The Prairies PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE The provincial government Is studying a mysterious condition in Lake Manitoba, north of here, which spells death to fx.

Once a year a Ued death wave sweeps through the lake "cooking" fish caught by It. They turn snow white and rigid, and have no market value. WINNIPEG Premier Duff Roblin would like to sea Manitoba have a provincial flag, as have Nova Scotia, Quebec and British Columbia. The Manitoba Travel and Convention Bureau is trying to get such a flag designed by June. WEST K1LDONAN Two more Greater Winnipeg municipalities are seeking city status West Kildonan and Trans-cona.

Both are asking the legislature to make the change this session. There are suggestions that St. Vital and Fort Garry may follow suit. FORT QIPAPPELLE A high percentage of Saskatchewan school buses have mechanical defects. This was revealed here this week at the fourth Western Canada Farm Safety Conference.

Most common faults were defective brakes, faulty steering mechanism and no fire extinguishers. REGINA Charges that the CCF government has infiltrated the province's civil service with supporters and friends were made in the legislature by J. E. Snedker (L Saltcoats). He named former welfare minister T.

J. Bentley, Mrs. Nan Black, wife of the deputy minister of industry and information, David Cass-Beggs, general manager of the Saskatchewan Power Corporation, and civil defence coordinator J. O. Probe as among those who were named to overnment posts for political REGINA Reglna's high get up earlier next Autumn, The new school hours will be JO ajn.

to 3.30 p.m. The change has been mad to allow students participating In games and other activities to get home In time for supper. BANFF All predators except skunks should be blasted out of existence because they compete with hunters in killing game animals and birds, the Alberta Fish and Game Association has declared. The skunk was excluded from the blacklist "for sentimental reasons." CALGARY Two thieves have disappeared with $895 worth of furniture by posing as movers come to take away a display. No one questioned their action until the rightful owner came to check the display and found it gone.

Wil police bad forced him to take a sobriety test However, he added, the failure of the police to caution the accused was in violation of both the Bill and established principles. British Columbia BURNABY Oakalla prison farm should be replaced by a University of BC campus. Reeve Alan Emmott has tug-. gested. Oakalla should be removed from the metropolitan area because many citizens have complained about recent escapes, he said.

VANCOUVER The Vancouver school board's fine arts committee has refused to distribute advertisements for the Duke of Bedford's exhibition of paintings on display here because It believes the Duke's past life is too lurid to Invito school children to attend. The Duke attends the exhibition daily to autograph copies of his autobiography. NELSON A dynamite blast near a railway crossing shattered some ties and damaged one raO her. Polio said timing of the blast coincided with the trial of two members of the Sons of Freedom Doukhobor sect held in connection with a Are near Grand Forks. VICTORIA Social Credit MLA Bert Price has suggested BC introduce compulsory automobile insurance on the lines of the CCF plan in Saskatchewan.

He said the high cost of insurance from private companies "may not be much to them, but it's a lot of money for me." VANCOUVER A survey which has been taken as a hint that BC Electric may sell its bus service in the Lower Mainland and Victoria has been announced by the company. BCE at present meets the' deficit la its bus operations from electricity revenues. Short Sermon a Must On This Ice Island WASHINGTON, DC (RNS) Chaplain (Col.) Elmer Carriker (Methodist) senior chaplain of the Alaskan Air is on clergyman who can guarantee that he knows how to preach a short sermon. One a month he goes out to conduct a service for Protestant service personnel stationed on the "ice island" floating free in the Arctic Ocean far above the Arctic Circle. A The plan can remain for only 50 minute or Its engine will freeze up and its wheels freeze fast to the ice and It won't be able to get away.

So unless the chaplain wants to Join permanently the party of scientists and servicemen bivouacked on the Island, he has to set up hi altar, gather hi congregation, reasons. school students win have to ROCKY MdUNTAIN HOUSE Cree Indian. John Strawberry, who never drinks because "the white man's liquor would kill anyone," has passed his 11 1th birthday. CARDSTON A 22 bed chronic hospital costing $140,000 will be built as part of the new Municipal Hospital, officials here have announced. EDMONTON The Bill of Rights neither adds to nor subtracts from protection afforded citizens in the courts, Mr.

Justice J. H. Mil-vain declared here in a case- hmi vuumcu uie nd conduct his service quickly, Neither Chaplain Carriker nor the 10 Protestant and Catholic chaplain who, serve under him hv tim for long sermons' or leisurely coffee hour on the "circuit" they fly. He ha "in excess of 30" remote radar at tions out In the Arctic tundra which both a Protestant and a Catholic chaplain try to visit at least once a month. In' addition, they conduct services at all the regular air fore Installations In Alaska, One In a while, however, the busy chaplain get an unexpected A visit to' a remote station which is only supposed to last a few hour may stretch out to long as two weeks if the weather close in and thoir plan cant get out Iris Street Project 11.

warn I MMM 44 THE OTTAWA JOURNAL SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 961 (A weekly budget of across Canada news for the many residents of Ottawa whose ties with their old homes are still asntJaaaiiMaaP" --tagaaasjaMP' I.JTF strong.) I It I III Low Rental Housing Gives Families 'New By STUART ANDERSON of The Journal Ottawa's latest low rental housing project on Iris Street has literally given more than one family "a new lease on life." A case in point is that of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sell and their eight children. Last year Mr. and Mrs.

Sell, who were living in a 10-room house in Rockland, found it necessary to move to Ottawa. After a four-months search for suitable quarters they finally moved into a four-room apart ment on AlberV-Street Their rent was $100 monthly. A NEW LIFE Because the quarters were much too small for his family. Mr. Sell, employed at the Ex perimental Farm, applied for one of the homes in the new development On January 1 they moved into an attractive four-bedroom home.

Their monthly rent Is now $82. The decrease in rent has en abled Mrs. Sell to give up her job and devote more time to her family. The Sells' are only one of some families who have already moved Into homes In the sewsa acre development located between Iris Street and Elmira Drive, west of Woodroffe Avenue. Of the 103 housing units In the project 35 have been completed.

The rest are all up and only require inside finish ing work. Alonf with a 21 unit apartment builfling. they should all be completed by May. $70 TO $8i Included in the development are eight two-bedroom homes, 54 three-bedroom homes, 14 four-bedroom homes snd six fiver, bedroom homes. Rent ranges from $70 monthly for a two-bedroom unit to $86 for five-bedroom home.

The two-bedroom tpartment units JOHN HUSTON Born Into World ThU it the third of a series on tht noted film director, John Mutton, who been called the "wetrd-ett man In the world." By LIONEL CRANE John Huston was bom into the restless, rootless world of greasepaint and glittering footlights, frowsy dressing rooms, flea-bitten boarding houses and sooty trains. His father, the late Walter Huston, became one of the screen's greatest and most be loved actors, but when John was in knee pants Walter, Ontario-bom, wa Just another act touring the variety circuit Those days left John with a wanderlust he has never lost He was a delicate boy with chest trouble, so he was put in a sanatorium. But John decided to try his own cure. Every night after light out he sneaked out and ran to a nearby river. He (tripped, jumped in the icy water, and let himself be dragged down through Jagged rock over a waterfall again and Again.

John told me: "I did it to toughen myself, to get over fear," Clearly, after that there was not much anybody could do but give the boy his head. John looked at hi long, thin. gangling body" and decided to take up the on thing it seemed to be least fitted for boxing. There wa one high school In Los Angeles that taught boxing, so that was where he went He left school when he was 16. His ambition was to be World welterweight champion, and the blood-and guts boxing arenas around Los Angeles seemed a good plact to start.

kmJWoJ NEW LOW RENTAL will rent for $88 monthly. Donald Best a City Hall finance officer who is looking after rental of the homes for the Ottawa Housing Authority, said Uat to date some 150 applications have been received. Whit the eight two-bedroom utils have been snapped up, then are still three, four and fiv bedroom homes and HOMES IN OTTAWA Lease on Life 9 Medal for Heroism Honors Four Chaplains two-bedroom apartment units available, he reports. REQUIREMENTS To be eligible for a home In the development applicants must meet certain requirements. They must have children and be able to show that they need better housing accommodation.

"We try to give the homes to persons who his widow, Mrs. Fox, of Cambridge, Vt. The medal of Chaplain Clark V. Poling (Reformed Church in America) of Schenectady, NY, was given to his son, Clark V. Poling.

of Guilford, Conn. Chaplain Poling's parents. Dr. and Mrs. Daniel A.

Poling of New York also were present as were other members of the family. Chaplain Goode's widow, now Mrs. Harry Kaplan, attended, as did Chaplain Poling's widow, now Mrs. Bruce Cunningham. The medals were conferred upon the four chaplains as i result of special act of Congress spproved July 14, 1960.

The measure was sponsored by Sens. Styles Bridges (R-NH) and Stuart Symington (D-Mo It was designed to end a long controversy hi ensued when the Army refused to award the chaplains the Congressional Medal of Honor because they were not technically engaged in "combat with the enemy" when they died. Chap lains, of course, do not engage in combat, although, as in the sinking of the Dorchester, they frequently die as a result of enemy action. The Army did bestow the Distinguished Service Cross posthumously in December, 1944, on the chaplains. of Grease Paint FORT MMR, Ga.

(RNS) The four chaplains of the USS Dorchester, who gave up their lifebelts to 4her men when their ship w.sj torpedoed in the North Atlantic February 3, 1943, and who Were last seen by survivors wh their arms linked in prayer, ere posthumously awarded a special Medal for Heroism in ceretionies here. The medals, sccejted by the next-of-kin of tht lour chaplains, two Protestant ministers, a Roman Catholic intst snd a rabbi, were bestowed by direction of Congress. Secretary of the my liter M. Brucker made Uie presentation at retreat cesjmonies at the parade ground Fort Myer, with members the First Battle Group, Thkd Infantry, known as the "Old Guard" rendering miUary honors. The medal for the Rev.

J)hn P. Washington (Roman Carbolic) of Arlington. NJ, was accepted by his sister, Mrs. Ama B. Schwebe! of Newark, NJ.

Miss Rosalie Goode ol Columbus, daughter of Chaplain Alexander D. Goode Jewish) of Marion, accepted her father's medal. The award to George L. Fox (Methodii) of Gilman. was present! to (3) Said John: fight twice under different names.

I wss paid 2 or E3 a fight and won 23 out of 25." When he wasn getting his face bashed in he was study ing to be a painter at an art school. IN MEXICAN CAVALRY' But on the spur of the moment he took himself down to Mexico City and enlisted in the Mexioan cavalry. There was a grin a yard wide across his face as he recalled that told me: "There never cn be another era like there was in Mexico in those days. "I becam th pet of tht I AWT. .1 uA i fv Soma-nights r7T-.

i a x.svrk rdiMexican general Thev were the wildest bunk of characters 1 ever met." I How wild coult they get? Listen to John: "ivh general had a was the biggest gaudiesm0st ex pensive American cal0f those days. iney wouia ioaa iircart with champagne and drVe like bats out of hell to one their haciendas, in the count "Anything that got In Veir way men, women, childi animals was mown down, casualties were fierce, and never even slowed down. "Their swimming pools we sY re or I (Journal phots bj Domlnkm WM) most need them," Mr. Best points out. In addition, their maximum Income must not exceed four times the rent charged for their bousing unit This means that a person wishing a two bedroom house which rents at $70 monthly, must not have an Income exceeding $280 a month.

One of Mr. Best's jobs is that of checking the salary requirements. Many persons, he notes, "inadvertently misjudge their monthly salaries." For instance, he points out a person making $73 a week might give his monthly salary as $292 simply by multiplying it by four. He would then feel ihe was all set to move into a three bedroom home which rents for $76 a month. However, by working out his salary on a 52-weeks-la-the-year basis his salary I found to be $318 a month, which puts him outside the $304 maximum for a three-bedroom unit Mr.

Best said the Housing Authority also tries to get persons who will take an interest in the property. It is not fair to the others living in the development if some tenants don't keep up their homes. PLAN PLAYGROUNDS Mr. Best added that landscaping and the addition of four playgrounds for children will be done before the project is completely finished. The project is the fourth low renul development in the city.

Financed by the three level of government (Federal. 75 per cent; provincial, per cent and municipal, 7V4 per cent it is a full recovery, nonprofit project Head of the Civic Housing Authority, which administers it is Ottawa construction man A. B. Taylor. full of naked girls.

They'd stay a couple of hours caroming, then go lik crazy back to Mexico City." John's eyes gleamed as he said: 'There was a poker game going on all the time. 'It was on when I arrived. and it was still going on when I left months later. The stakes were incredible. and at the end of a big hand there was always the same climax.

"One of those general would pull out a six-shooter and cock it "The lights would go out and the crazy so-and-so would throw the gun up bang against the ceiling. "Then the lights would turned on to see if anyone had been shot "Often someon had. After he'd been carried out the gam would go on." Wild? Listen: "On general was in love with a South Am-trican actress. At a party on night she made fun of him. "Out came his gun.

He lined everyone up against the wall, and said he'd shoot the first one who smiled. wasn't kidding. He once shot an usher for showing him to a wrong seat in a theatre." WRITES SHORT STORY Somehow, in the midst of 11. this hell-raising, John found time to write. He sold a short story for 200, snd that was all the spark he needed to start him on hi travels again.

He put 'the cheque In hi pocket snd went to Saratoga, in New York State, then the only place in America that had legalized gambling. In one night he rin hi 200 up to 4.000, ihootlng NEXT! Ths first of his four "drop-of-the-hat".