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The Ottawa Journal from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • Page 38

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38 Monday, April 10, Canada's new official guest house for visiting heads of state was unveiled today. The rambling, three-storey square stone house at 7 Rideau Gate has been completely refurbished and decorated in early 18th furnishing. The living room, pictured here, is decorated in casual, bright-colored chintz chairs and chesterfield, with oatmeal colored They May Have Found Spot That Once Was Camelot SOUTH CADBURY, England (AP) After centuries of doubt, archeologists may on the eve of finding King 'Arthurs ro mantic kingdom of Camelot. "We could be standing on it right now," said Leslie Alcock. "It could lie right here beneath our feet and we hope to find it." Pointing to a freshly opened pit he said: "This is the sort of pit in which inhabitants long ago kept their grain.

These were Masked Thieves Get $2,500 Gatineau police are investigating a break-in and holdup on Notre Dame Street late Sunday and early Monday. Four armed, masked men entered the Rustic Inn, 389 Notre Dame Street, at 2.30 a.m. Monday. They bound the caretaker, Oscar Lavoie, 50, and Maurice Cote, 30, with piano wire before cracking a safe containing $2,500. They also broke open and looted cigarette machines, causing a total of $400 damage.

At the Gatineau Catholic School Board offices. 225 Notre Dame, thieves broke in, smash ed the combination lock on the safe and made off with $200 to $300 in cash late Sunday. Trustees To Study Regrouping About 125 Roman Catholic school trustees from Papineau and Outaouais regions of Western Quebec voted Sunday to set up a special committee to look into school board reorganization. The decision followed a speech by Outaouais trustee Jean-Paul Tremblay advising every board to take stock of itself and see whether it can amply supply the services ask ed of it Mr. Tremblay said any board which cannot do its job properly should fuse with one of its neighbors.

Delegates to the general meeting of the Zone 11 Association of School Trustees, which includes Papineau and l'Outaouais, also discussed sending their students to Expo 67. Papineau regional board and Hull school board have already begun arrangements for an Expo trip between May 1 and June 15. Outaouais plans are being held up by the province's re fusal to pay the shot. No decision will be made concerning Outaouais students until the regional board has had a better chance to inves tigate expenditures which are being decreed as inadmissible for government grants. Delegates to the meeting at the Duvernay Hotel in Hull also discussed religion in schools.

It was proposed that religious training in a Catholic school should try to create a Christian atmosphere and not limply impart information. 1967 The Ottawa Journal LIVING ROOM AT subsequently filled in with rub bish, and the rubbish contains the things archeologists like. "I refer to metal objects, bits of pottery and animal bones, all of which help us build up a pic ture of the past." PERHAPS CAMELOT? But what about Camelot itself? "Ah," replied Alcock, a dis tinguished archeologist of University College of South Wales. "I don't think scholars of today would accept the riea-sgf Arthur as a king, but they would accept the idea of him as a great military leader, a sort of generalissimo of the early 6th century. "It so happens that South Cadbury Castle the spot where we are now talking is the larg est fortified site that we know for that period.

"It really does seem that the archeological evidence re inforces this sort of tradition, Museum Appoints Director (By The CP) Dr. William E. Taylor, 39, an authority on Arctic archaeology, today was named director of the human history branch of the National Museum of Canada. A native of Mimico, Ont, he succeeds Dr. R.

G. Glover who left the museum last week. The museum also announced it will obtain space in two separate Ottawa buildings to house expanded exhibits. The Canadian War Museum will take two floors of the old archives building on Sussex Street for a display that includes a reproduction of a EirslWoriLWar.Jrench. The Museum of Science and Technology will take up tem porary quarters in an old bak ery in the southeast section of the city for a display of technological development This will include the National Aviation Museum, now housed at Uplands airport Sisters Top Vocal Class At Festival Two sisters, Maeve Hassell eight, and Janet Hassell, 11, were winners in the junior vocal for girls under 12 at the Ottawa Music Festival com petition at Trinity Anglican Church Hall.

They are the daughters of Glebe Collegiate music teach er, Desmond Hassell, and Mrs. Hassell of 204 Belmont Ave nue. First-prize-winning Maeve was awarded the parent-teacher group trophy, St. Brigld's Parish. Adjudicator Leonard Herival complimented her for the color, understandine and! smooth control of her rendi tion of "As I Was Going to the Market." by Rowlry.

Janet was awarded second prize. The festival is continuing hrough the week with contes-ants performing in eight halls throughout the city. 7 RIDEAU GATE carpeting and cinnamon-colored velvet cushions. Over the mantel is a landscape by Stanley Cosgrove. First guest at the new residence will be the new Governor-General and Mrs.

Michener, who will stay at 7 Rideau Gate until they can move into Government House. -(Journal Photo by Dominion Wide) or connection, with Arthur. "This place has been here, as a habitation and fortification, for a very long time. It, begins around 3000 BC. We've got pot tery and flint arrowheads and flint axes from that date.

"Beneath the late Saxon de fences here we should find some sort of refortification of Arthur's date. This is one of the things we'll be out for this sum mer." McClellan Takes Alta. Job (By The CP) RCMP Commissioner George B. Mc Clellan has turned down an offer to stay at the head of the force beyond his retire ment date of Aug. 15 and will leave to take a new job as Alberta's ombudsman, it was learned today.

A spokesman in the prime minister's office said Solicitor General Pennell asked Com missioner McClellan to stay beyond Aug. 15. However, the commissioner replied that the Alberta job is contingent on his being available In August Fellow Worker Testifies (By The CP) A fellow worker of Bower. Edward Featherstone testified today that the government press ficial Secrets Act, attended parties with a "Russian friend" from the Soviet embassy about three years ago. Calvin Lloyd, who works in the same mapping branch press room with Featherstone, said the accused and the Russian lived in the same apartment building and attended the same parties.

Mr. Lloyd testified at Feath-erstone's trial in Carleton County court that the accused once brought a bottle of vodka to work and told his fellow workers it was a gift from his Russian friend. The witness did not identify the Soviet embassy official and was not asked to do so. He said the last time Featherstone spoke about the Russian was about three years ago. "They had some parties in the apartment building." He was not sure in whose apartment the parties took place.

The Crown completed the presentation of evidence today on the fifth day of the trial of Bower Edward Featherstone on two charges under the Official Secrets Act. NATURE SOLVES CRISIS FORDINGBRIDGE, England fCP) Nature broke the deadlock over a tree on the pro posed site for a memorial to artist Augustus John in this rural Hampshire town. Some said it would, enhance the site and others argued it would spoil the view. The wind solved the problem by blowing thej tree down India Honors Michener From AP-Reuters NEW DELHI (CP) Canadian High -Commissioner Roland Michener flew to Katmandu, Nepal, today for a one-day visit to bid farewell to King Mahen-dra before leaving Wednesday for Ottawa to take up his duties as Canada's new Governor-General. Sunday night Michener was guest of honor in a farewell dinner given by India and Tuesday he will be.

guest at a reception given by the local diplomatic community. External Affairs Minister M. C. Chagla, addressing the din ner Sunday night, expressed India's gratitude to Canada for its "prompt and generous" help during last year's food crisis. He said Canada was perhaps the first country to come to In dia' aid and it was in time of need that one realized one's true friends.

"Canada certainly stood the test," he added. Ottawa, Area Deaths KEVIN DURHAM. 18 months, son of Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Durham.

1394 Highgate Road. JOANNISE CLEOPHAS, 127 Front, Lucerne, Que. MRS. KATE ALICE LOW. 91, widow of Herbert Samuel Low, 31 Kenil worth Avenue.

MRS. IDA McVEIGH. 83. 647 King Edward Avenue. MRS.

EMMA FLORENCE DONOGHUE. 69. Oxford Mills. GEORGE URBAN TANNER. Brockville.

JOSEPH A. CONST ANTI-NEAU, 78, 212 Gladu Street, Eastview. JOSEPHAT CHENIER, 76, Buckingham. ALFRED DILLABOUGH, MRS. ALEX DaPRATO, housewife, Alexandria, formerly of Ottawa.

MRS. ANTON O. HOT-VEDT, 82, housewife, 68 Meadowlands Drive. MRS. MATILDA JANE BURGOYNE, widow of Wil-liam- John Burgoyne, Bond Head.

MRS. ALLAN C. STEW-ART, 81, housewife, Carleton Place. JACK CRAIG, 69, of 97 Strathcona Avenue. JOHN McTAVISH CAMERON, Carleton Place.

MRS. ANN ESTHER MURPHY, widow pf Patrick Murphy, Buckingham. PATRICK M. McNA-MARA, 81, Eganville. MRS.

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