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lit (ttztMie SUN RISES AT 6.16 A.M.; SUN SETS 7.31 P.M. D.S.T. MONTREAL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1959 40 A 1 Building Hits New J. Durette Appointment Stalled By Councillor City council yesterday, after'; this amount, is to beidrew a draft bylaw it had asked mure than an hour's debate, ltlf charged back to owners of bord-jthe council to adopt and which tabled for consideration later i ering P11" kould authome the city to ksue ii. sitninr These items of business brought! dt'bt'ntur's 'n the amount of during its current Matutory (UEgesti0M from some $1,000,000 to finance projected meeting an executive commit- jors that be c(H)r(j.

expropriation of the Cedar Ave. tee recommendation that Deputy ination worked out between civic Proort.y of tlie former Children'i Record Value represented by building permits Issued in Montreal during August totalled $52,814,820, setting a record high (or the month, City Hall announced Director Armand Durette of departments such as public! ior mcorpora- i Mnnlrrnf. fir HiMiartment iraillC. Wlin me i I Quebec Natural Gas Corp. in the named director to replace Ray- 0lt of work.

Mnn. jrat mssr-zlJ'3 t. it. This brought the aggregate mi, ii A subsequent item on tha agenda, to enKt the expropriation, however, still stands. Executive Committee Chairman J.

M. Savignac said the draft value represented by permits mond K. Pare, who has real streets. The executive committee had To finance some of the local given during the first eight months of this year to i it- I obtained the permission of the improvements voted, the council! 1l.U; A I fixi 0 council, by a vote of 50 to 15, to introduce the recommendation 187, with a record high for the complete 12-mmth period Indicated. Tor the first two-thirds of 1958, value aggregated $96,415,246.

By MYER NEGRU bylaw has been designated as fur expropriation purposes instead of as for capital expenditures, but Vice-Chairman Murray W. Hayes told council that the proposed bylaw was unnecessary, as tha despite the fact that it was not on the agenda for the quarterly meetinf which had just opened. The outstanding August total Request for permission was! I was achieved as result of a $45, sought after the executive com-j city already had the funds mentioned. Neither save any further ex VIST mittee had received a letter adopted a bylaw authorizing the city to issue debentures in the amount of $4,500,000, of which $1,500,000 would serve to carry I -J. 1 Doo.ooo permit for construction of the projected 46-storey (includ from the Canadian Underwriters' planation.

ing mechanical storeys) cruci the property owners' share of form building on Piace Ville Association saying that "any useless delay" in appointment of a new director would be to the detriment of the department's efficiency. Marie by the Webb and Knapp interests. This Is the largest value represented by iny single the costs. Coun. P.

J. Bertrand unanimously was chosen pro-mayor for the ensuing three-month term, while resignation of former Leader of Council Marcel La-faille from the council also was accepted without discussion. Mr. Last week, as well, the execu permit issued Montreal. tive committee had been urged by the Montreal Fire Fighters However, while values were far ahead of last year's, the Association to designate a new director in the interests of efficient operation by the department.

Yesterdav, however, Conn. J. results. Strtct lights aron't in eithar. A public works department spoktsman said Quebec-Hydro it now com pleting electrical connoctiont and both street and traffic lights thould bo in operation within week.

iGtt. Photo service) WHO GOES FIRST? Scrteching braktt and ducking ptdtstriani are a common tight en tho new section of Burntide St, The roaton: Traffic lights aren't operating yet. This photo, taken at the intersection of Mountain shows tho kind of confusion that number of new dwellings contemplated, among other types of premises, in virtue of the permits was lower this year for August and for the eight-month period respectively 871 and 8,106 as compared with 907 and 8,709. Last month the executive committee ordered homologation of the property, on which the present owner planned to develop an "apartment city" of five 11-storey buildings, for a five-year period for park purposes and called for a a tion of expropriation plans The property owners, however, uLtained a temporary injunction, valid until Sept. 16, against homologation without immediate expropriation.

The executive committee then decided to place the expropriation item on the agenda, but yesterday Coun. Lucien Croteau moved adjournment until today because, among other reasons, the dossier concerning this matter was not yet completed and council did not know how much it would be required to appropriate. M. Beriault declared there was no need to make the appointment immediately and that the coun- Lataille became ineligible to continue in the council when he recently was named as one of the city's representatives on the Montreal Transportation Commission. Mr.

Lafaille's successor as councillor for No. 1 district (St. Paul, St. Henry, St. Cunegonde wards), category and his successor as leader of council probably will be named at the next city council meeting.

The executive committee with- should not make a hasty de Ex-Postman Faces Cheque Heat May Get Upswing In Poliobnd Shots cision. He said a tnorougn inquiry should be made as to whether Mr. Durette is the right man for the post. Theft Charges In effect, said Coun. Beriault, There were 637 permits issued last month, of which 302 represented a $51,576,880 value in new construction and 335 were for repairs and alterations valued at $1,237,940.

In August, 1958, there were 597 permits issued for a total value, of which $7,839,960 in new construction Was accounted for by 282 permits, while $8,846,990 in repairs and alterations took 315 permits. For the first eight months of Mr. Durette for the past few A 36-year-old former Post Of months has been directing the department and would be on hand fice employee was accused yes terday of theft of some 200 fam Montreal's polio epidemic may be taking a turn for the worse as a result of the current heat wave. This word came yesterday afternoon from city epidemiologist Dr. Gustave Charest.

He said: "The decrease in cases noted last ily allowance cheques from the At Clinic main post office on Windsor St. to take charge of fighting any important fire "as he has been doing during the last six months." Fear 'Politics In Opposition Coun. Roger Provost and Coun. week appears to be levelling off and this may be due in large part to the hot humid weather experienced in Montreal recently." Roger MacDonald, 233 Sher this year. 4,416 permits were OUR NEWEST BRANCH MOW OPEN 6260 Upper Lachine Rd.

HU. 8-1922 brboke St. West, appeared before City health officials reported When Quebec March of Dimes issued, of which 2,091 were for Judge Redmond Roche who fixed 36 new confirmed cases under $119,572,820 in new construction officials closed the doors of the and 2,325 for $15,169,167 in repairs and alterations. Louis Laberge countered that they had consulted the firemen's union and that it had nothing The corresponding 1958 figures were 4,629 permits, of which 2,318 were for $67,520,685 in new 0 irvaimein in monireai nospaais. preliminary Inquiry for Sept.

8 Qf thes6i are rom dty No bail was granted. proper, four are from the suburbs Tho court was told the 200 and 18 are from outlying areas, cheques made out in amountsl 0ne new deatn from the city va-vin2 from $8 to $20 were'as rePorted. bringing the irom su to so werejtality total to 31. stolen from the main post office The total number of cases has earlier this month and recovered, reached 590, 247 of them from AT THE 4 CORNERS OF THE CITY YOU WILL FIND A construction and 2,311 for $28 MR. MUFFLER 894,561 in repairs and alterations.

against Mr. Durette. Mr. Provost declared that there had been no politics hitherto in fire department promotions so far "and I don't want it brought in now." The council, which stands adjourned until today, also at its initial sitting of the meeting, which has a 147-item agenda, voted 95 appropriations totalling for local improvements (sewers, sidewalks, paings). Of City Playgrounds City Hall at 10 p.m.

yesterday bringing to an end four mass polio vaccination clinics, 17,955 persons had received their second shots of Salk Vaccine. At the first two clinics Aug. 10 and 11, 19,945 persons were given first shots. "The 1,790 people who failed to return either received their second shots elsewhere or felt that" the polio scare was over," speculated March of Dimes chief, Alec C. Solomon.

A well-organized team of doctors and nurses began working at 4 p.m. and citizens filed past tSs I FREE in the room of the accused before any had been cashed. In asking bail be refused, Special Federal Prosecutor John Cerini noted MacDonald had previously been convicted for thefts from the mails. Montreal children will have the apparatus in 100 playgrounds to amuse them in healthy play until the opening of the school term, Sept. 9, and after, parks officials INSTALLATION in IS minutes "This decrease of more than 40 per cent from the peak sixth' week seemed to denote a de-1 finite trend that the epidemic was tapering off'" Dr.

Groulx said. "During hot weather like this, a person has much lower resistance to virus infections," said Dr. Charest. "It is generally accepted that these conditions are a predisposing factor to polio." Dr. Groulx cautioned citizens to continue to use care in personal health measures and to avoid getting over-tired.

Good news for children came yesterday with the announcement by Dr. Groulx the city's 59 health clinics will continue to give second shots to children under 20. "We have enough vaccine to continue our restricted program for at least this week," he said. It had been believed earlier the city Salk supply had been exhausted and that Monday's theft would mean that Montreal children could get no more shots. announced yesterday.

the inspection tables without hav Montreal proper. Dr. Adelard Groulx pointed out that the upswing in new cases might well be only temporary. "In the eighth week of the 1946 epidemic which hit its peak after six weeks there was a slight upswing, after which the incidence of cases continued to decrease," the health director said. After hitting a peak of 99 cases in one week in 1946, the weekly incidence dropped to 70 cases, then rose again to 79, after which a steady tapering off was recorded.

The week ended Aug. 22 was the peak week to date in the current epidemic with 67 cases being confirmed. Last week only 38 cases were confirmed. ing to queue up as they has been Planning Talk Franciss J. Nobbs, architect, will be the guest speaker at the weekly luncheon meeting of the Kiwanis Club of Montreal tomorrow in the Sheraton-Mount Royal Hotel.

The subject of Mr. Nobbs' address will be "Some Problems Relating to City i FOR A PERFECT TRIBUTE CAU Clarke Funeral Home LARGEST MOST MODERN BEST FQU1PPED PARLORS 8ILUMCUAL STAFF CHAPEL WITH HAMMOND ORGAN forced to do at the first two clinics. A total of 9,820 persons were vaccinated at last night's clinic. "Our supply of vaccine is now all but exhausted," Solomon said after the clinic. "We will be unable to hold any more clinics until the supply of vaccine is replenished." OPEN EVENINGS Maritimes Have Their Ghosts TILL 9 P.M.

5580 SHERBROOK! W. 24 HOUR SERVICI (at MareHI HU 1-0441 JOHN (JACK) CLARKE 'Iwuldn't 'Be In Maybe students, gathered from all But Dr. Laidlaw noted thatition and the sea are other fac-some of the highest ranks in the 'tors which helped make the Mar- itimer a mobile person nation were filled by transplanted across Canada to discuss the influence of various ethnic and regional groups on national culture, raised an old historical question in his talk on Maritime background. "This tradition to migrate and roam became an irresistable force in the Maritimes. In every Ghosts and a storied past help make Maritimers somewhat different than their fellow Canadians, a native.

Nova Scotian said here yesterday. Dr. Alexander Laidlaw, for many years a prominent educator in his own province and national secretary of the Co-operative Union of Canada, remarked that this was so because the provinces have an older historical back decade from about 1850 the Man-times lost through migration "Maybe we shouldn't be a part Maritimers and said this too must be considered part of the culture of the provinces by the sea. The speaker said it was a rare thing for a young man to be given heavy responsibility in the Maritimes with executive positions likely to be filled by men about 100,000 people mostly the of Canada. Indeed it is only an historical fluke that the Mari young and energetic.

A number roughly equal to the population times are not part of the United States. A few ships of the Royal URIHAHALYSIS BLOOD TESTS CtnpltH irinantlytb 2 I I Flo LiSiontory Mi VI. 5-7251 I Accurate blood tstt I of P.E.I, left home every 10 years to seek their fortune in other parts of the world." On the economic side of Maritime life. Dr. Laidlaw commented on the great disparity of wages to be earned there and in the ground than most parts of By JOE EMERY Canada.

"Yes, the Maritimes are different because there are ghosts "safely" over 50. NORTH SOUTH 2S35 Lourentien Blvd. Craig corner Amherst Rl. 8-6653 LA. 4-6834 WEST EAST 6260 Upper Lachine Rd, 1295.

Bellechassa St. I. (corner Chamtord) HU. 8-1922 CR. 3-1561 A voune Maritimer who is rest of the country and said the there; these places down by the sea are filled with figures of the overly ambitious or who tinkers! effect of this "glaring inequality" with new ideas is often looked is to perpetuate the drift of pop- 'past, and I believe this has col Navy kept us loyal to the Em-1 pire at the critical time." The Mjritimes are more a part of New England than of Canada, but 35,000 loyalists fleeing the American revolution settled there and helped to keep it upon with suspicion, and he willlulation.

And it is bound to put a probably be advised to move on CLAUDE DESPATIE, president ored our point of view, in Halitax, for example, you see -history all about you until you almost feel it. certain stamp on the culture and I at variable ratts yitliW'lUdniMMl to other parts of Canada or the United States where he will not be so much out of place, he British, he stated. By way of comparison, you outlook of the young generation for you can't keep economics and culture apart in water-tight Recalling the Golden Age in have no ghosts in Hamilton oriaritjrne history (one historian isaid. Edmonton, at least not old ghosts says from 1830 to 1867) the Dr. Laidlaw added that tradi-'compartments." like those of the Maritimes." Speaking to the seminar of the i National Federation of Canadian University Students, Dr.

Laidlaw admitted that some think speaker said those were the days when Maritimers built and sailed a large portion of the total shipping tonnage of the world in trade and commerce and exploration and settlement. Now the situation has changed Maritimers might make too much of the past "and boast. Charmingly Decorated For Private Functions for example, that Nova Scotia considerably, is the only part of the old Brit Lack of opportunity forcing ish Empire which could fly its young Maritimers to seek great-own flag." ier fields away from home is a Dr. Luidlaw addressing the great and continuing problem. McGILL UNIVERSITY Department of University Extension in co-operation with The School of Commerce offers A DIPLOMA in MANAGEMENT AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION This series of courses, open only to university graduates, includes accounting, administration, banking, business policy, economics, finance, marketing, personnel, production, sales and statistics.

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