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The Ottawa Journal from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • Page 4

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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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4 Wednesday, December IS, 1968 GIVEN LIFE DETENTION The Ottawa Journal Seek Suitable Institution For ll-Year-Old Strangler LONDON (Reuters) British "authorities today searched for a suitable institution to treat an 11-year-old girl sentenced to life detention for strangling two small bovs. 1 Britain Spparently has no suitably secure institution where Mary Bell. 'described as a mentally sick, prococious and cruel OVER UNIONS Wants Flu Vaccine For Elderly TORONTO (CP) Available supplies of vaccine against the Hong Kong strain of influenza should be restricted to the elderly, chronic heart and lung patients and others for whom there is a risk of serious complication. Health Mat thew Dymond told the Ontario i legislature Tuesday. The vaccine is available to physicians IjWii'iar with the state of hearw of persons who have the greatest risk of developing complications, Dr.

Dymond said in reply to a question from. Dr. Morton I a (NDP Toronto High Park). "Routine immunization of the general population has not proved effective in altering the course "of outbreak of influenza and is not recommended." Dr. Dymond said the majority of cases in the.

U.S. are mild or moderate. Average length of absence from work is two days. influenza vaccine is proving to be only 60-per-cent effective and only when administered in two dnses three weeks apart. Best preventives are to avoid crowds antj to isolate persons who seem to be developing Infections of the upper respiratory system.

New Summerside Mayor Is Elected SUMMERSIDE, PEI (CP) C. Ross MacKenzie. 52, Tuesday was elected mayor of this Prince Edward Island town, with 1,175 votes, a 548-vote majority over his only opponent, J. Ernest Morrison. He succeeds George Key, who resigned Nov.

28 after being elected leader of the provincial Progressive Con-1 servative party. HAIR RAISING BET REDDISH, England (CP) Angler Len Phillips bet his stylish handelbar moustache that he could catch a bigger fish than Doug Holberry, who put his hair on the wager. Doug lost and now is sporting a smooth-shaved pate at their anglers' club. "To be quite honest I'm beginning to like my hair style," he said. CROWN BR0ADL00M BR0AD100M AT DISCOUNT PRICES 235-6768 FOR HONEST VALUES; AND PERSONAL SERVICE SCOTER'S MorVt Square fifing Bridge Plot chTIct, can get psychiatric treatment.

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Lc assorted cplours" Basic unit 13.00 Separate b6xes Ijl.ffl each was sentenced to life detention after a jury found her guilty of manslaughter. Her close friend, 13-year-old Norma Bell, no also charged with the crime, was acquitted. In a 10-day trial in the grimy coastal town the two girls, next-door neighbors, were accused of murdering Martin Senator Attacks Thomson Policies (By The CP) The Peterborough Examiner strike hit the Senate Tuesday as Senator David Croll (L Ontario) accused the Thomson newspaper of trying to smash its editorial union. He said the policy of the newspaper group established by Canadian-born Lord Thomson of Fleet is to deny newspaper guilds their legal rights" for as long as it can. The Toronto senator said the company refuses to discuss union security and the question of transferring employees, without their consent, with the striking unit of the American News- per GuikL The company po- siticitfcswas indefensible and dis graceful? "It clearlyotHso smash the newspaper union anodoes not care how it accomplishes it.j There is doubt" that a legal charge of bargaining in bad fanh against The Examiner could be sustained.

The anti-Thomson attack by Senator Croll, once labor minister in Ontario's Hepburn administration, came during'an upper house debate on a money bill. When Senator Croll sat down, a Manitoba Conservative, Senator G. S. ThorvaJdson got up and said the senator had made noted individual, on a Canadian company and on a group of people. Senator Thorvaldson said his sense of fair play demands that a vicious personal attack on a 'time be permitted in the Senate for a rebuttal to Senator Croll.

He obtained a deferment of the debate on the moneybill, which had been scheduled for third and final reading before Senator Croll got up. Brown, 4, nd Brian Howe, 3. They denied the charges. Mary Bell, described during the trial as "a manipulator Of children," was said to have exercised a powerful Influence over the slower-witted Norma Bell. She was sent temporarily to a jail where accused persons await trial.

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