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THE VANCOUVER SUN: March fi, 1954 3 Bennett Still Ducks Where Is i i i 1 1 PGE Probe Demand lVh.eaP, k- i "i laSSiiSifc 1 B.C. Curing More Insanity Patients VICTORIA, March 6 (CP) Provincial Secretary Wesley Black forecast Friday in 20 years there would be no such thing as the chronically ill mental patient Asks MLA CCF Move to Force Issue Fails To Crack Gov't Wall of Silence By Sun Staff Exporter VICTORIA, March 6. Where is that cheap milk that was supposed to come with decontrol? That's what Robert Strachan. Black wound up the Throne I for infectious diseases Speech debate in the Legisla-unit By Sun Staff Reporter VICTORIA. March 6.

Premier W. A. C. Bennett Is ture with a talk on the advances standine firm in the face of mountine onrtosition Dressure the CCF member for Cowichan Answering J. D.

Tisdale (SC. made in mental health In Brit to demands for an inquirv into the southern extension 0f'Newcaste- asked the Lsis- Saanich), Black, a former ish Columbia. He had particu, lature Friday. But he didn't get tne Facinc Great Eastern Railway, school teacher, said as far as lar praise for the Crease Clinic teachers are concerned A CCF move to force the issue at the outset of the week's debate failed to crack the government's wall of silence. which was opened In Jaouary, there is no indoctrination of 1951, and which has sinre re- students.

There was too much ceived praise from specialists of "this old bogey about around the world. teachers belonging to poliUcal parties, said Black. He had known several teachers who had belonged to political parties and he knew of no attempts at indoctrination. an answer. Strachan declared Agriculture Minister Kenneth Kiernan promised "cheap milk" when he decontrolled above the producer level October 1.

Kiernan protested that he had made no- such promise. Strachan condemned the government's milk policy completely Friday and said that Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island dairymen were losing "thousands of dollars" because they couldn't get rid of their surplus milk. Strachan urged the government to put the Industry back on an "even keel" by restoring control and to solve furthpr problems by getting farmers to market their milk on a "pool" basis. BENNETT JUST SMILES Since Opposition leader Arnold Webster moved for the inquiry, the premier has merely smiled at each mention of the contentious rail link. Announcement that tenders have been called for clearing the Squamish-Horseshoe Bay stretch of the route fanned a fresh flurry of demands in the Legislature, Friday, but by the close of the Throne Speech debate the government had still avoided a debate.

"What kind of government is He said institutions In B.C. were admitting and treating twice as many patients now than In the fiscal year 1948-49 but "we are keeping for further treatment a lesser number each year." The minister outlined new facilities to be constructed for the mentally ill. These included a 300-bed addition to Woodlands' School for Mentally Defective Children. 300 beds for the Port Coquitlam Home for the Aged, a day hospital and a child guidance clinic, and a 228-patient Robbery Admitted WINNIPEG. March 6-fCP Clifford Leonard Orr, a 22-year-old Winnipeg youth, has pleaded guilty to the $26,000 robbery of the Winnipeg Free Press December 21 and been sentenced to a five-year prison term.

I I IS IStiii this?" asked an Indignant Robert Strachan, CCF member for Cowichan-Newcastle, as he blasted Bennett for calling 622-628 Granville TAtlow 1221 Senate Out of Work OTTAWA, March 6 (CP) With no government legislation expected until Commons completes work on the housing legislation, the senate has adjourned for a week. ROBERT COWELL turns Into woman II? if -J tenders for clearing the right--of-way of the southern extension. MAIL US POSTCARD If the premier is going to make all the decisions, said Strachan, he "might as well mail us a postcard and tell us what's happened." Liberal member for Oak Bay, P. A. Gibbs, continued his party's campaign for an inquiry.

The premier, he said, had "no right to commit the province to spend $12 million on an insolvent, bankrupt operation." The CCF move came on Tuesday when Opposition Leader Arnold Webster set the government off balance by introducing a resolution calling for the government to refer the matter of a southern extension to the House's select standing committee on mining and railways, to find out the economic facts. FATHER OF 2 NOW 'BETTY' Ex-Fighter Pilot Becomes a Woman LONDON, March 6 (BUP) The British Health Ministry disclosed today that a virile, dashing former fighter pilot who is the father of two girls, 10 and 12, had turned into an attractive blonde woman in an unprece First brush with the law proved happy one for Mrs. Nora Harrison, 3951 Hudson, Friday. Officer who stopped her, Jack Ferguson, only did so to inform her she was millionth driver to cross new Granville Bridge. Charles Warner photo.

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army man quits over McCarthy fight WASHINGTON, March 6 (BUP) A special assistant to Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens has resigned with an angry charge that Stevens' superiors failed to -support him fully in his fight with Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy. The aide, John F.

Kane, said he quit his post because Stevens was not receiving "full fighting support in the gallant battle you (Stevens) are trying to put up for the army." She was all aflutter. What place to be stopped by police! Every car and truck slowed to see what was going on. It was As a firm-jawed young man, Robert Cowell had burned up the tracks in high speed auto races and in the Second World War had engaged Nazi Luftwaffe pilots in roaring dogfights. But after the war was over, he began to notice mental and physical changes and reported his suspicions to specialists. Today he is Roberta Elizabeth Cowell, an attractive woman with flowing blonde tresses.

Surgery and hormone treatment over a three-year period transformed the man into a woman so conclusively that the health ministry corrected Co-well's birth certificate to read "girl" instead of "boy." Now, 35, Robert Cowell, who was known to the men in the RAF as Bob, has a new set of friends who call her Betty. She wears her lustrous, light blonde hair at shoulder length with bangs over the forehead. Her hands are slim and graceful and her eyebrows are arched. She has readjusted to her new life and lives with her parents at Croydon, although today she was said to be "travelling in Europe." Medical sources said it was unlikely Roberta would be able to bear children. They believe Cowell's case is unprecedented because they know of no other sex change involving a person vho had become a parent.

Cowell's wife obtained a divorce in 1952 on the ground of desertion, and since has remarried. His father is Major-Gen. Sir Ernest Cowell, who was honorary surgeon to King George VI and President Eisenhower's medical services chief in North Africa during the Second World War. precisely 2:21 p.m. and she was late.

Nelson Called 'Depressed' VICTORIA, March 6 (CP) P. A. Gibbs Bay) said in the Legislature Friday the Nelson area is becoming a "depressed area" because mines are closing down. Gibbs called for the immediate rescinding of the 10 percent tax on mining companies' profits over $25,000. He said the tax must go If the mining industry is to survive.

In the last two years 28 mines had shut down and be Mrs. Harriman admitted to Constable Jack Ferguson that she was in a hurry to get back to tthe office with her father Alex Borrowman, and her rangy Alsatian, King. No, the dog doesn't work at the office but he goes along with the boss. Drugs Take Major Slice of Health Bill "Yes, here is my license," she SARNIA, Ont, March 6 (CP) Canadians' spend almost as much on drugs to cure their ills as they pay said as Ferguson asked to see it out of pure habit. "I slowed down to 22 miles per hour the moment I saw your motorcycle at the south end of the bridge." tween 2000 and 3000 miners had been laid off.

He admitted that bad markets had caused the mines to shut down but said without the 10 percent tax they would have been able to remain open longer. to hospitals and dentists. And about one-quarter of the average family's health budget goes to buy protection under public and private A member of the city's traffic engineering department was on medical and hospital care plans. the scene, and a photographer- Health Minister Martin says reporter team from The Vancouver Sun. under public and private medi New Course for Women Physicians Office Assistants cal and hospital care schemes.

Off to the side of the span, Direct payments to doctors assistant engineer Ed Wilson, 6069 Elm, was checking figures took 23.5 cents, to hospitals 12.4 cents, and to dentists 8.8 cents. The 19.5 cents of each dollar on the automatic traffic THE CABINETS KEPT LOCKED By Sun Staff Reporter VICTORIA, March 6. Bob Strachan (CCF, Cowichan Newcastle) Friday protested that no matter how hard he tried he couldn't get information he wanted from Social Credit cabinet ministers. "I have heard of ministers being appointed without portfolio," he told the Legislature. "But this is the first time in history that a government has appointed ministers without Information," he said.

counters placed there following the official opening February 3. spent on drugs almost equalled the total going to hospitals "Now they want me to pose and dentists. those figures are some of preliminary findings of a countrywide sickness survey made in 1951. Results of the survey are still being analyzed. Canada's total health bill in 1951 was $675,000,000, and only one in five Canadians went through the year withont an illness, Martin said at the opening of a new addition to the Sarnia General Hospital.

In the survey year, Canadian families reported health expenditures of about $374,000,000. A breakdown of their health dollar showed the largest share, 1500 Expected at Lions' Conference More than 1500 delegates are expected to attend the 33rd annual convention of District 19, Lions International, in Hotel Vancouver on May 27, 28 and 29. Principal speaker will be S. A. Dodge, Detroit, president of Lions International.

Convention chairman is E. S. Tierney and co-chairman is Wilf Munton. The convention will be hosted by the nine Van for a picture? I won't let them services, nursing care and other costs took the other publish it if I'm the first motorist to get a ticket on the 12.2 cents of the dollar. bridge." A special evening course of study Is offered to train women for positions as Physicians' Office Assistants.

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