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The Gazette from Montreal, Quebec, Canada • 4

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The Gazettei
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Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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THE GAZETTE, TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1968 GENERAL NEWS Parliamentary Racist Returns Home To U.K. On tiff Off RECORD and strikes take place to defend racism, the situation has got to be grim." In London, hundreds of demonstrators made a protest march to the home of Powell. the iiiiiim mi I iLJM in Mill "i yWWPflL. irMWH "W'" ft Hill ill lr- 4i Sill! K-i: fe-' a i Vyf Pll 0 ALrlNc INN inANlINly nHnua; it ail our certain, and subject only to tome final but important formalities, that ownership of the Cardy Alpine Inn at Ste. Marguerite Station, Quebec, will change hands in a matter of hours.

Negotiations toward the sale have been underway for several months, with a syndicate of purchasers which includes members of the present management of the inn. Sale of the inn proper will probably be followed by sale of the 18-hole Alpine Inn and Ste. Marguerite Golf and Country Club. With accommodation for some 350 guests at the inn and in cottages, the Alpine Inn was one of the pioneer luxury resorts in the mid-Laurentian area, built some 40 years ago and continually expanded and modernized over the years. There art several ski hills adjacent to it, as well as riding stables and a show ring.

Man Committed In Child Death BRANDON (CP) -Eugene Ivan Drysdale, 32, was committed yesterday for trial on a charge of noncapital murder in the death of two-year-old Angela Hawkins. A Crown witness testified at a preliminary hearing that the little girl was beaten to death by Drysdale in a house in Brandon and her body taken away in a suitcase. Angela's remains were found Nov. 13, 1967, in hill country near Brandon. MARKS OWNER'S RETIREMENT: The sale will mark retirement from the Canadian hotel scene of Vernon G.

Cardy, one of the last survivors in the tradition of personal hotel ownership. Starting as a desk clerk in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Montreal, he built a chain of hotels which at' its zenith included hotels in Montreal, Toronto, Windsor, Hamilton, Niagara Falls and the Alpine Inn. During this period the Cardy colors were active and highly successful in horse shows at the inter loMING pVENTR national level, and in racing. This interest has continued, but LONDON (CP) Enoch Powell, conservative member of Parliament, was given a police escort when he returned from a weekend visit to Canada yesterday. A storm continued over anti-immigrants speech he made.

Police accompanied Powell in a special car from his plane to Heathrow Airport lounge, normally used by heads of state and cabinet ministers. Powell said he did not ask to use the lounge and it was believed concern for his safety led to the move. In Canada, Powell attended the 17th annual Bilderberg Meeting at Mont Tremblant, Que. Colored Policeman Starts Work Meanwhile," Britain's first Negro policewoman started work in London, but she may quit because of abusive letters. Sislin Fay Allen, a 29-year-old housewife from Jamaica, was named the first colored woman "bobby" last week.

She came to Britain in 1962 and worked as a nurse. Mrs. Allen told reporters before going to work: "I have received dozens of threatening and abusive letters. I do not know whether I wil stick with this job or not. "Many white people have congratulated me on joining the police, but for every nice letter there have been others full of abuse.

They are all from white people and they say things like 'Get out, and Stay out of the police, nigger'." Leaders of the principal Indian, Pakistani and Negro oragnizations in Britain formed a Black People's Alliance aimed at rallying 1,000,000 immigrants into a drive against racism. "We are not the people who create DeLroits," said Jag-mohan Joshi, general secre- Shipping Hearing Completed OTTAWA (CP) The water transport committee of the Canadian Transport Commission completed public hearings yesterday on the ownership and registration of ships in Canada and heard conflicting recommendations from a union leader and the owner of a shipping firm. Leonard McLaughlin, president of the Seafarers' International Union of Canada, although expressing a "dedication to the concept of Canadian ownership" of ships, warned against imposing too-restrictive ownership laws. Phrixos B. Papaehristidis, president of Papaehristidis Co.

Montreal, called for Stiffer restrictions on ownership and registration of ships in Canada. The committee received 25 briefs. It began public hearings in Vancouver April 4 and shifted them here last week. Interested parties have until the end of June to submit written rebuttal to the testimony submitted. The committer hopes to submit a report on the question to Transport Minister Hellyer by this fail, a spokesman said.

Mr. McLaughlin told the hearing Canada's 'ocean-going merchant fleet has deteriorated "to the point of destruction" and the Great Lakes fleet is encountering troubles. His union wanted al Canadian shipping returned to a healthy financial position. Restrictive ownership qualifications on ships of Canadian registry would not achieve this. He blamed inadequate rates for cargo and excessive taxes and other government measures for the difficulties.

Mr. Papaehristidis saw it differently. If proposals favoring a agreement to allow vessels of the nations to share in shipping traffic between ports of the same country were adopted, "giant foreign interests would continue progressing in Canada because of their powerful ramifications and thrust," he said. Canadians would be driven out of the shippers "would be like a small fish in a pool of sharks." blocked the building entrance yesterday. The Majority Coalition plans to allow neither persons nor food to enter or leave the library.

(AP Wirephoto) LIBRARY PATROL: As student protesters at Columbia University's Low Memorial Library sit on a window sill holding a sign calling for more students to join the sit-in, another group the Majority Coalition- "LET'S MAKE A ILLUSTRATED by Film and Slides, will be presented by the Zoological Society In the Royal Bank Auditorium, Place Vllle Marie, Wednesday, May 1st, at 8 p.m. Tickets, Free. Call Columbia Rebels Scorn Offer As Student Blockade Formed 'to If has been less active in recent years. After sale of the chain to Sheraton Hotels, Mr. Cardy continued in the active operation of the Alpine Inn to attain more than three decades of participation in the hotel and visitor industry up to his impending retirement.

QUOTABLE QUOTES: Police in one of the inner suburbs, noted for its close-mouthed policy with news media, all but successfully hushed up the death by hanging in its police cells Friday night of a 41-year-old man who had been picked up while driving a stolen car Decarie Boulevard businessmen have petitioned the city to permit left turns, where feasible, along the service roads on both sides of it while the expressway portion is closed. Incidentally, the contractor, given a break with the weather, could even anticipate the target date of July 1 There's a chuckle in the radio commercial for a pest control firm which assures listeners that required work will be done in their own homes St. Mary's Hospital W. A. holds a blood donor clinic at the hospital today The old Mon Mart structure on Laval Boulevard in Chomedey is to be transformed into a recreation mecca, with a roller rink, a health club, ice skating, billiards, restaurants, etc.

PERSON TO PERSON: Claude Ryan, influential publisher of Le Devoir, has publicly disavowed rumors that he will be a Progressive Conservative Party candidate in the June election Bernard Brbuillet, Jean Clavel, Carl Reinke, Stuart Richardson, Rielle Thompson and John Welsh, charter members of the Quebec Chapter, Canadian Public Relations Society, honored guests at the chapter's 20th anniversary dinner Tommy Tomasso will operate a pasta and wine establishment at Man And His World, hard by the Cominco Pavilion Jacques Beauchamp, sports editor of Montreal Matin, 'will be honored on completion of 25 years in journalism at a dinner in the Hotel Bona venture on May 6, being arranged by Jacques Des Serres Ski Pro Guy Normandin of Mont Olympia at the international meet in Aspen, Colorado Cartoonist Ed McNalJy immortalized in a papier maelie likeness by at Mac Makowski's Rockburn Trout Club, where the speckles have started to show an interest in lures. SHOW BUSINESS: Actor Walter' Sleiak, who stars with Chef Bruno suggests: For Lunch Today CHOPPED VEAL CUTLET P0JARSKI $1.85 Department program might be settled. Kirk announced he had accepted "the essential spirit" of a peace formula proposed by 200 faculty members for ending the total Campus disruption by 1,000 of the university's 27,500 students. Some students, eager for the school to return to normal, formed what they called the Majority Coalition to end the protest and threw up a blockade around Low Memorial Library Sunday night. condition for negotiations," said Mark Rudd, chairman of the students for a Democratic Society, which is leading the demonstration.

Rudd did say the peace formula "has suggestions in it that could serve as useful approaches to the way the demands besides amnesty could be met." I another development, mediator Theodore Kheel, who tangled successfully with tough New York transit- and newspaper negotiators, entered the dispute and said he had made "some suggestions" under consideration by stiKlentrebes. Earlier yesterday it appeared the student rebellion over construction of a gymnasium in a Harlem park and Columbia's ties to a Defense NEW YORK (UPI-AP) Rebelling students at Columbia University refused last night to go along with portions of a peace formula worked out by a faculty committee and which university President Grayson Kirk said he accepted. The decision left negotiations stalled, the students still in control of five campus buildings, and a growing possibility that police would be called in to haul them out. No classes will be held at Columbia today, as they have not been since last Thursday, and the civil rights protest -entered its second full week. Student demonstrators said they would consider no nego-fationa until they had been granted total amnesty.

"Amnesty must be a pre fai-ir rtf Mm Tnrlinvi WfM-lrprc The tightened it yesterday Associalion. "Detrodts are morning, saying they were fnr.P(l price includes: Soup I Dessert 1 I Coffee or I I Te I I Served from I 1 Noon Today in I 1 "Le Covelier" I 1 downstairs at "When dock workers start marching in favor. of Fascism cutting off all food and medical supplies for about 100 protesters inside. About 200 students manned the blockade. "If they want a real seige, then let's have a real siege," said Paul Vilardi, spokesman for the counter demonstrators.

"No food wil go into this building." LAKE ST. FRANCIS TRAILER PARK On Lake St. Francis, 12 miles beyond Valleyfield on Highway 3. All facilities, beach, picnic ground, good fishing. Golf club nearby.

Phone: 658-89Z3 Cowan Hots Up At Water Needs Margaret Phillips in "The Lion In Winter" opening at Place des Arts tonight, is a veteran of 19 films, the recipient of Tony Award for his performance as Panisse in "Fanny" 712 timet on Broadway, and has appeared in numberless radio and tv dramas The Montreal Museum will limit attendance at the May 12 and 26 concerts of the McGill Chamber Orchestra to 400 as a safety measure, with tickets available without charge on a first come first served basis. LE RESTAURANT DU ELLE-CLUB IS OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC TO LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! Drunk Staggers Into Lion's Pit same, Mr. Cowan said. He said if the city built a dam across the St. Lawrence River, "they could have 50-foot of water in the harbor instead of worrying about keeping 35." In a 1909 treaty governing waters between Canada and the United States, power considerations ranked third and last in the order of precedence with drinking water and navigation coming first and second, Mr.

Cowan said. people are not sucking the lake dry." There are dams at Cornwall and Iroquois, he said, but the level of Lake Ontario is falling because "you'll find the gates at Iroquois in the air any time you go by." Mr. Cowan said the dam is never closed because of "Mont real's constant demand for water. Meanwhile, water is running out of Lake Ontario and Toronto harbor officials warn ships "to load light because the lake is 2V4 feet below level." Water intakes and sewer outlets are being exposed to the air, he said, the Iroquois dam remains open because "I'm told -the power people heed the water." As for, low water in Montreal harbor, London, England, dredged its docks and nsfid locks to keep shipping afloat WINDSOR, Ont. (CB Ralph Cowan yesterday blamed the low water levels in the Great Lakes on the demand for water by Montreal and suggested the city build a dam across the St.

Lawrence River. Mr. Liberal York Humber in the last House of Commons, told a Windsor Rotary Club meeting that dams should be built at Amherstburg, Sarnia and Fort Erie to hold present water levels above Niagara Falls. He said if demands for power Increase, use of electricity should be restricted or other sources of power such as coal and nuclear plants should be developed. He.

said, the wafer level on Lake Superior does not "vary more than 1 feet 'a year because of a dam at Sault Ste. Marie and because "the power Montreal, which now claims i SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) A 59-year-old man was in serious condition yesterday after he staggered into a lion's pit waving a wine bottle and was mauled by a 450-pound roaring lion. The beast, a five-year-old African lion, was killed with a single shot between the eyes fired by a soo-keeper at the San Francisco Zoo. I "Come here, come Amos Watson of MEpitas, taunted the lion while waving his half-empty wine bottle and tottering on the edge of a 25-foot deep waterless moat. Suddenly Watson apparently fell into the moat, and a lion, named Tommy, who had been sunning himself on a concrete deck overhead, immediately clawed Watson and bit him on "the upper part, of his body, inflicting deep gashes under rib fractured legs and severe lacerations.

"These cats cm never be trusted," Farringtpn. said. it needs water for power in winter as well as harbor water in summer, is saying "to hell with the table of precedence," he said. MEN! MEN! and Montreal could' do the i 1-4 I'lfJI Hit usm i mn I mxJfr i If If II it --t imi immi hwuimhii iii ii'rf IimwJ Quebec Meets France On Money of the latter is the hotel and tourist industry in the Antilles, West Indies. PARIS (Reuters) The Franco-Quebec economic commission met for the first time yesterday a year after it was setup when Quebec Premier Daniel Purpose of the meeting, continuing today, is to investigate investments made by France in Quebec and the joint investments made by France and Quebec Sfl example" GEOMETRY AND OTHER SUBJECTS Coaching Afternoon-Evening PREP SCHOOL BATTLE OF THE BULGE SEE PAGE 11 MO) SUMMER SPECIAL There is no need to be a.

member or to be accompanied by a member in order to take full advantage of the unique facilities offered by the RESTAURANT DU ELLE CLUB, the French eating place that is acclaimed by all "gastronomes" as one of the finest in the city, In a beautiful decor of authentic old stones and a truiy hospitable atmosphere you will find: The Various Dining Rooms Table d'hote menus from $1.90 at lunch and from $2.90 at dinner. Sundays: Special menus for children lunch dinner. Reserve now for mother's day." 1 Reception Halls Special menus for groups of 25 to 125 persons. The "Bar-Boutique' All liquors, beers and wines. Snacks.

Choice of Quebec handicraft: jewelry, enamels, ceramics, etc. Permanent exhibition of Canadian and imported paintings, The Meeting Rooms The Sidewalk Cafe-Terrace, to be open shortly In the fashion of Continental Europe. Specialties: snacks, imported beers, glasses of red or white wines, choice of coffees. The parking Lot Across the Street. Ladies are cordially invited to inquire about the advantages of joining the Elle-Club, Ladies, Social Club.

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